Every manuscript submitted to GOVERNMENT: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan undergoes a rigorous editorial assessment and double-blind peer-review process to ensure the quality, originality, and scholarly contribution of published articles.

The review process begins with an initial screening conducted by the Editorial Team. At this stage, manuscripts are evaluated for their relevance to the journal’s focus and scope, compliance with the author guidelines, quality of academic writing, citation practices, and similarity screening results. Manuscripts that fail to meet these requirements may be rejected without external review.

Manuscripts that successfully pass the initial screening are assigned to at least two independent reviewers who possess expertise relevant to the subject area. The journal adopts a double-blind peer-review system, in which the identities of both authors and reviewers remain anonymous throughout the review process.

Reviewers evaluate manuscripts based on originality, theoretical contribution, methodological rigor, analytical quality, clarity of presentation, significance of findings, and relevance to the field of government studies. Based on the reviewers’ recommendations, the Editor may decide to accept the manuscript, request minor revisions, request major revisions, or reject the submission.

Authors are required to revise their manuscripts in accordance with reviewers’ comments and editorial recommendations. Revised manuscripts may be subjected to additional rounds of review when necessary.

The final decision regarding publication is made by the Editor-in-Chief based on the reviewers’ reports, the quality of revisions, and the journal’s editorial standards. The journal is committed to maintaining a fair, objective, confidential, and timely review process in accordance with internationally recognized standards of scholarly publishing and publication ethics.