Open Access Policy

Open Access Statement

Jurnal Pertahanan dan Bela Negara is a fully open-access journal. All research articles published in this journal are freely and immediately accessible to the public, researchers, academic institutions, and national defense practitioners worldwide upon publication without subscription paywalls or registration requirements.

This policy aligns with the definition of open access articulated by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and complies with the principles set forth by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Core Principles of Open Access

• Immediate Access: All accepted articles are made permanently free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full texts immediately upon publication.
• No Financial Barriers: Readers, researchers, and defense institutions are not charged any fees to access, download, or cite published articles.
• Reuse Rights: Reuse of published content is permitted under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), provided proper attribution is given to the original authors and the journal.

Benefits for Authors and the Scientific Community

• Global Visibility: Unrestricted access maximizes the reach, readership, and citation impact of scholarly research in national security, defense management, and state defense (Bela Negara).
• Knowledge Dissemination: Accelerates the transfer of research findings to defense policymakers, military analysts, academics, and the public.
• Public Good: Supports democratic transparency, national resilience, and public education by making institutional research funded by public resources freely accessible.