Ownership and Management Information

SENTRI: Jurnal Riset Ilmiah

1. Journal Ownership

SENTRI: Jurnal Riset Ilmiah is a multidisciplinary academic journal focused primarily on the advancement of educational sciences and allied supporting disciplines. The journal is owned by the legal entity Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global, a registered higher education and research foundation based in Indonesia. The journal operates under the official open-access publishing framework to provide an unrestricted, global platform for scholars, researchers, educators, and students to publish high-quality theoretical and empirical investigations.

  • Journal Title: SENTRI: Jurnal Riset Ilmiah

  • Journal Initials / Abbreviation: Sentri / SJRI

  • Legal Entity (Badan Hukum): Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global

  • Publishing Management Body: Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (LPPM) Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global

  • Country: Indonesia

  • Online ISSN (E-ISSN): 2963-1130

  • Publication Frequency: Monthly (12 issues per year, published at the end of each month)

  • DOI Identifier: https://doi.org/10.55681/sentri by Crossref

  • Indexing & Citation Analysis: SINTA, Google Scholar

2. Publisher and Institutional Affiliation

The publication and administrative workflows of the journal are managed by the Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (LPPM) Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global. As the official research and community service institute of Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global, LPPM provides the institutional infrastructure, IT support, hosting environment, and regulatory governance for the journal's electronic publishing operations. All manuscript handling—from initial desk submission, double-blind peer review, copyediting, and Crossref DOI minting to final galley dissemination—is executed systematically via the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.

3. Journal Management

SENTRI: Jurnal Riset Ilmiah is managed by an independent editorial board led by Editor-in-Chief Dr. Sumardiana, M.Pd. The editorial team comprises qualified scholars and disciplinary experts across education, vocational training, educational administration, linguistics, social sciences, and applied technology. The editorial management is responsible for:

  • Overseeing initial manuscript screening, similarity checks, and desk rejections.

  • Coordinating an objective, double-blind peer-review process involving at least two independent expert reviewers per manuscript.

  • Enforcing publication ethics, retraction guidelines, and anti-misconduct protocols aligned with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

  • Supervising the monthly production pipeline to ensure that accepted articles are finalized, formatted, and published on the final calendar day of each designated month.

4. Editorial Independence

SENTRI firmly adheres to the principle of complete editorial independence. While the legal entity Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global and its publishing unit LPPM Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global provide financial, technical, and institutional hosting, they do not interfere with editorial decision-making. Decisions to accept, revise, or reject a submitted manuscript rest entirely on the academic merit, empirical validity, methodological rigor, and relevance of the work, guided by peer-reviewer evaluations and editorial board consensus. Publication decisions remain insulated from commercial, political, personal, or institutional pressures.

5. Transparency and Accountability

SENTRI: Jurnal Riset Ilmiah maintains transparency regarding its organizational ownership, publishing entity, operational management, peer-review model, author fees, and ethical standards. All regulatory guidelines, author requirements, copyright policies, and archiving practices are made publicly available on the journal's official portal. Any governance updates, editorial appointments, or structural changes within LPPM Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global are promptly updated on the masthead to maintain institutional transparency and accountability before national accreditation bodies (such as ARJUNA/SINTA) and international indexers.

6. Contact Information

For inquiries concerning journal administration, institutional partnership, indexing verification, manuscript processing, or editorial governance, stakeholders may contact the editorial secretariat through the following channels:

  • Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Sumardiana, M.Pd.

  • Publisher / Managing Body: LPPM Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global

  • Legal Institution: Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global

  • Editorial Office Correspondence: LPPM Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global, Indonesia

  • Official Journal System: Open Journal Systems (OJS)

  • Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.55681/sentri

7. Final Statement

SENTRI: Jurnal Riset Ilmiah is owned by Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global and operated under the professional governance of LPPM Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global. Driven by rigorous peer-review practices, strict adherence to COPE publication ethics, transparent organizational management, and complete editorial independence, the journal remains dedicated to disseminating trustworthy, high-impact scholarly research across the educational sciences and multidisciplinary domains.