This statement outlines the ethical responsibilities of all parties involved in the publication process of JPIn: Jurnal Pendidik Indonesia, including authors, editors, peer reviewers, editorial board members, and the publisher. JPIn is published by Yayasan Pendidikan Intan Cendekia in collaboration with the Asosiasi Pendidik dan Pengembang Pendidikan Indonesia (APPPI).

The journal is committed to maintaining the integrity, transparency, fairness, confidentiality, and quality of the scholarly publishing process.

Section A. Publication and Authorship

1. All submitted manuscripts undergo an initial editorial screening to evaluate their compliance with the journal's aims and scope, author guidelines, publication ethics, originality requirements, and minimum academic standards.
2. Manuscripts that pass the initial screening are evaluated through a rigorous double-blind peer-review process conducted by at least two reviewers with relevant expertise.
3. The identities of both authors and reviewers remain confidential throughout the peer-review process.
4. Manuscripts are evaluated based on the following criteria:
   • relevance to the journal's aims and scope;
   • originality and scholarly contribution;
   • theoretical and methodological rigor;
   • accuracy and depth of data analysis;
   • significance of the research findings;
   • clarity, organization, and readability; and
   • quality of academic writing.
5. Editorial decisions may result in one of the following outcomes:
   • acceptance;
   • minor revision;
   • major revision; or
   • rejection.
6. An invitation to revise and resubmit a manuscript does not guarantee its acceptance. Revised manuscripts may be returned to the original reviewers or assessed by additional reviewers when necessary.
7. Rejected manuscripts will not normally be reconsidered unless the Editor explicitly invites the authors to submit a substantially revised manuscript as a new submission.
8. Acceptance of a manuscript is subject to compliance with all applicable legal and ethical requirements concerning copyright, plagiarism, defamation, privacy, confidentiality, research ethics, and intellectual property rights.
9. The same or substantially similar research must not be published in more than one journal or publication.
10. Manuscripts containing plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabricated or falsified data, inappropriate authorship, citation manipulation, or any other form of publication misconduct will be rejected or, if already published, retracted.

Section B. Authors' Responsibilities

1. Authors must ensure that their manuscripts represent original, authentic, and scholarly work.
2. Authors must confirm that the submitted manuscript:
   • has not previously been published in substantially the same form;
   • is not currently under consideration by another journal, conference proceeding, or publisher; and
   • will not be submitted elsewhere while under review by JPIn.
3. Authors must properly acknowledge and cite all ideas, data, quotations, figures, tables, instruments, and materials obtained from other sources.
4. Plagiarism, self-plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, deceptive reporting, inappropriate image manipulation, and citation manipulation are strictly prohibited.
5. Authors must present their research methods, data, analyses, findings, and conclusions honestly, accurately, and transparently.
6. Authors must retain relevant research data and supporting documentation and provide them to the Editor upon reasonable request for verification or ethical investigation, subject to applicable privacy and confidentiality requirements.
7. All listed authors must have made substantial intellectual contributions to both the research and the preparation of the manuscript.
8. All authors must:
   • approve the final version of the manuscript;
   • agree to its submission and publication; and
   • accept responsibility for the integrity of their respective contributions.
9. Guest authorship, honorary authorship, gift authorship, and ghost authorship are strictly prohibited.
10. Individuals who contributed to the research but do not meet the authorship criteria should be appropriately acknowledged.
11. Requests to add, remove, or rearrange authors after submission must be supported by a written explanation and the written consent of all affected authors.
12. Authors must disclose any financial, institutional, professional, personal, academic, or other conflicts of interest that may influence the research or its interpretation.
13. Authors must clearly identify all sources of research funding and, where applicable, describe the role of the funding organization.
14. Research involving human participants—including students, teachers, children, parents, or educational communities—must comply with all applicable institutional, national, and international ethical standards.
15. Authors must obtain ethical approval, informed consent, parental or guardian consent, and participant assent whenever required.
16. Authors must safeguard the privacy, confidentiality, dignity, safety, and well-being of all research participants.
17. Authors must participate responsibly in the peer-review process by responding to reviewers' comments respectfully, clearly, and systematically.
18. Authors must promptly notify the Editors if they discover any significant error or inaccuracy in a submitted or published manuscript and must cooperate fully in issuing a correction or retraction whenever necessary.
19. 19. Artificial intelligence (AI) or AI-assisted tools must not be listed as authors.
    20. Authors remain fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, integrity, citations, and interpretation of all content created or revised using AI-assisted tools.
    21. Any substantive use of generative AI in research, data analysis, translation, image generation, or manuscript preparation must be transparently disclosed in the manuscript.
    22. AI-assisted tools must not be used to fabricate, falsify, manipulate, or misrepresent research data, participant responses, findings, citations, images, or research procedures.

    Section C. Reviewers' Responsibilities

    1. Reviewers must treat all submitted manuscripts and related materials as confidential documents.
    2. Reviewers must not share, reproduce, distribute, retain, or use unpublished manuscript content for personal, professional, academic, or commercial advantage.
    3. Reviews must be conducted objectively, professionally, respectfully, and without personal criticism of the authors.
    4. Reviewers should provide clear, constructive, and evidence-based evaluations, supported by appropriate arguments or references whenever applicable.
    5. Reviewers should distinguish between essential revisions and optional recommendations.
    6. Reviewers should identify relevant published works that have not been appropriately cited by the authors.
    7. Reviewers should promptly notify the Editor of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under review and any published or submitted work of which they are aware.
    8. Reviewers should inform the Editor of any suspected:
    • plagiarism;
    • duplicate or redundant publication;
    • data fabrication or falsification;
    • inappropriate image manipulation;
    • citation manipulation;
    • unethical research practices; or
    • any other form of research or publication misconduct.
    9. Reviewers should accept review assignments only when the manuscript falls within their area of expertise and they can complete the review within the specified timeframe.
    10. Reviewers who lack the necessary expertise or cannot complete the review on time should promptly decline the invitation.
    11. Reviewers must disclose and avoid any financial, professional, institutional, personal, competitive, collaborative, supervisory, or other conflicts of interest involving the authors or their institutions.
    12. Reviewers must not require authors to cite the reviewers' own publications unless those references are directly relevant to improving the manuscript.
    13. Reviewers must not attempt to identify, contact, influence, intimidate, or retaliate against authors.
    14. Reviewers must not upload confidential manuscripts or review materials to AI-assisted systems unless the journal has formally approved the system's confidentiality, privacy, and data-protection safeguards.

    Section D. Editors' Responsibilities

    1. Editors have the authority and responsibility to accept, request revisions to, or reject submitted manuscripts.
    2. Editors are responsible for maintaining the academic quality, integrity, credibility, and overall standards of the journal.
    3. Editorial decisions must be based solely on:
    • relevance to the journal's aims and scope;
    • originality;
    • scholarly significance;
    • methodological rigor;
    • clarity and coherence;
    • ethical compliance; and
    • contribution to mathematics education.
    4. Editorial decisions must not be influenced by the authors' nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, political beliefs, institutional affiliation, disability, academic status, or personal background.
    5. Editors must ensure that manuscripts are evaluated fairly, objectively, independently, and confidentially.
    6. Editors must protect the confidentiality of authors' and reviewers' identities in accordance with the journal's double-blind peer-review policy.
    7. Editors must select reviewers based on relevant expertise, impartiality, availability, and the absence of conflicts of interest.
    8. Editors must not appoint reviewers who have close personal, professional, supervisory, competitive, collaborative, or institutional relationships with the authors.
    9. Editors must disclose and avoid any financial, professional, institutional, personal, or other conflicts of interest.
    10. Manuscripts submitted by editors, editorial board members, or individuals closely associated with the journal must be handled independently by another qualified editor who has no conflict of interest.
    11. Editors must ensure that published research complies with accepted ethical principles and all applicable research ethics requirements.
    12. Editors should accept manuscripts only when they are reasonably satisfied with their originality, academic quality, methodological rigor, and ethical compliance.
    13. Editors must take appropriate action whenever research or publication misconduct is suspected in either submitted or published manuscripts.
    14. Allegations of misconduct must be investigated fairly, objectively, confidentially, and without unnecessary delay.
    15. Authors and all other affected parties must be given a fair opportunity to respond to allegations and provide supporting evidence.
    16. Editors must not reject or sanction an author solely on the basis of unsupported suspicion. Decisions regarding misconduct must be based on appropriate evidence and fair procedures.
    17. Editors may consult the publisher, editorial board, authors' institutions, funding organizations, or other relevant authorities whenever necessary to resolve ethical concerns.
    18. Editors must publish corrections, corrigenda, errata, expressions of concern, retractions, or other appropriate notices whenever necessary to maintain the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record.
    19. Correction and retraction notices must be clearly identified, permanently accessible, and directly linked to the original published article.
    20. Editors should not reverse previous editorial decisions without substantial academic, ethical, procedural, or legal justification.
    21. Editors must prevent conflicts of interest among editorial staff, authors, reviewers, editorial board members, and the publisher.
    22. Editors and editorial staff must not use confidential information obtained from submitted manuscripts for personal, professional, academic, or commercial advantage.
        

        Section E. Publisher's Responsibilities

        1. The Publisher supports the editorial independence of JPIn: Jurnal Pendidik Indonesia and must not interfere with editorial decisions for commercial, institutional, political, or personal reasons.
        2. The Publisher is responsible for supporting a fair, transparent, independent, and ethical scholarly publication process.
        3. The Publisher must support the Editors in investigating allegations of research or publication misconduct.
        4. The Publisher must cooperate with Editors, Authors, Reviewers, academic institutions, funding organizations, and other relevant authorities in addressing serious ethical concerns.
        5. The Publisher is responsible for maintaining the journal's digital content, archives, and the integrity of the published scholarly record.
        6. The Publisher must ensure that corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, and other post-publication notices remain permanently accessible.
        7. The Publisher must provide clear and transparent information regarding:
           • publication fees;
           • copyright and licensing;
           • open-access policies;
           • digital archiving;
           • privacy and confidentiality; and
           • editorial and peer-review procedures.
        8. The Publisher must ensure that financial or commercial interests do not compromise editorial independence, the integrity of the peer-review process, or the quality of published articles.
        9. The Publisher must collaborate with the editorial team to prevent conflicts of interest involving authors, reviewers, editors, editorial board members, and all other parties participating in the publication process.

        Closing Statement

        JPIn: Jurnal Pendidik Indonesia is committed to safeguarding research integrity and maintaining public trust in scholarly communication. Authors, reviewers, editors, editorial board members, and the Publisher share the responsibility for ensuring that every published article is original, accurate, transparent, ethically conducted, and contributes meaningfully to scholarly knowledge.

        This Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement applies to all manuscripts submitted to and all articles published in JPIn: Jurnal Pendidik Indonesia.