Ownership and Management Information

BANUA: Jurnal Kesehatan Lingkungan

BANUA: Jurnal Kesehatan Lingkungan is a peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal dedicated to publishing original research, review articles, and other scholarly contributions in environmental health sciences and related public health disciplines.

The journal aims to facilitate the dissemination of scientific knowledge, promote research integrity, encourage academic collaboration, and support the development of evidence-based environmental health practices and policies at national and international levels.

BANUA is managed by the Department of Environmental Health (Jurusan Kesehatan Lingkungan) and published by Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu, Indonesia.

The journal is committed to maintaining transparent information regarding its publishing institution, editorial leadership, management structure, institutional responsibilities, and publication procedures.

All publishing and editorial activities are expected to comply with the journal's established policies, publication ethics requirements, and internationally recognized principles of responsible scholarly publishing.

1. Journal Information

Journal Title: BANUA: Jurnal Kesehatan Lingkungan

Journal Type: Scholarly, peer-reviewed academic journal

Subject Area: Environmental Health Sciences and Public Health

Publication Model: Open Access

Peer-Review Model: Double-Blind Peer Review

Publication Frequency: Biannual (Two Issues per Year)

Publication Schedule: May and November

Year of First Publication: 2021

Publishing Platform: Open Journal Systems (OJS)

Publisher: Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu

Managing Institution: Department of Environmental Health, Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu

Electronic ISSN (e-ISSN): 2797-8184

Print ISSN (p-ISSN): 2797-8176

Editor-in-Chief: Mustafa, SKM., M.Kes.

Managing Editor: Muhamad Iqbal, SST., MKM

Country: Indonesia

Official Website: https://jurnal.poltekkespalu.ac.id/index.php/bjkl

Editorial Office Email: jurnal.banuapalu@gmail.com

2. Ownership and Publishing Responsibility

BANUA: Jurnal Kesehatan Lingkungan is published by Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu, a higher education institution in the health sciences sector in Indonesia.

The journal is managed academically and operationally by the Department of Environmental Health, Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu.

The publishing institution provides the organizational and administrative framework necessary to support journal operations, scholarly communication, digital publication, and long-term publication sustainability.

The institutional publishing responsibilities include:

Providing administrative and organizational support for journal management.
Supporting the operation and maintenance of the journal's electronic publishing platform.
Facilitating the availability of appropriate resources for editorial and publication activities.
Supporting the preservation, accessibility, and dissemination of published scientific articles.
Maintaining appropriate institutional oversight and accountability for journal operations.
Supporting compliance with applicable institutional policies and recognized scholarly publishing standards.

The ownership and publishing arrangements are intended to provide a clear institutional foundation for the journal while safeguarding the independence of its editorial processes.

Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu, as the publishing institution, supports the journal's scholarly objectives and operational sustainability.

However, institutional ownership or publishing responsibility must not be used to interfere improperly with manuscript evaluation, peer-review recommendations, or publication decisions.

Any changes concerning the publishing institution, journal management, or institutional affiliation will be reflected in the journal's official information when applicable.

3. Editorial Management

BANUA is managed by an editorial team responsible for maintaining scientific quality, coordinating manuscript evaluation, organizing peer review, and ensuring compliance with editorial and publication ethics requirements.

The journal's editorial management structure consists of appointed academic and editorial personnel with relevant expertise in environmental health sciences and related disciplines.

3.1. Editor-in-Chief

Mustafa, SKM., M.Kes.

Department of Environmental Health, Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

The Editor-in-Chief provides overall academic leadership and is responsible for ensuring that the journal's editorial policies, scientific standards, and publication ethics requirements are implemented consistently.

The Editor-in-Chief oversees the editorial evaluation process and holds final responsibility for decisions concerning manuscript acceptance, revision, or rejection, subject to the journal's established editorial procedures.

3.2. Managing Editor

Muhamad Iqbal, SST., MKM

Department of Environmental Health, Poltekkes Kemenkes Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.

The Managing Editor coordinates daily editorial operations, monitors manuscript processing, facilitates communication among authors, editors, and reviewers, and supports the implementation of the journal's publication schedule.

The Managing Editor also assists in maintaining editorial documentation, submission workflows, and administrative consistency throughout the publication process.

3.3. Editorial Board

The Editorial Board consists of academics and researchers with expertise in environmental health, public health, environmental science, and related disciplines.

Members of the Editorial Board contribute to the journal's scientific development and support the evaluation of manuscripts within their respective areas of expertise.

Their responsibilities may include:

Providing scientific and academic guidance.
Supporting the development and implementation of editorial policies.
Evaluating manuscripts within relevant fields of expertise.
Assisting with the identification of qualified and independent reviewers.
Promoting the quality, originality, and relevance of published research.
Supporting the journal's academic development and scholarly visibility.
Maintaining appropriate standards of research integrity and publication ethics.

The Editorial Board includes members affiliated with academic institutions in Indonesia, supporting diverse scholarly expertise and institutional representation.

The names, institutional affiliations, and professional profiles of current Editorial Board members are provided on the journal's official Editorial Team page.

3.4. Peer Reviewers

Peer reviewers are independent scientific experts responsible for evaluating submitted manuscripts based on their methodological quality, originality, relevance, scientific validity, and ethical compliance.

BANUA applies a double-blind peer-review model in which author and reviewer identities are concealed from one another during the review process.

Reviewers provide constructive scientific recommendations to assist editors in making informed publication decisions.

Reviewers do not have independent authority to accept or reject manuscripts. Final decisions remain the responsibility of the authorized editorial team.

3.5. Editorial and Technical Support

Editorial and technical support personnel assist with the administrative and production activities required for scholarly publication.

These activities may include manuscript administration, copyediting, layout preparation, reference verification, publication metadata management, online article preparation, and technical support for the OJS platform.

Technical personnel perform their duties under the supervision of the appropriate editorial authorities.

The journal's current editorial structure and appointed personnel are identified through its official website.

4. Roles and Responsibilities

The BANUA Editorial Team is responsible for ensuring that submitted manuscripts are evaluated fairly, independently, consistently, and in accordance with the journal's scientific and ethical standards.

Its principal responsibilities include:

Manuscript Management: Receiving submitted manuscripts, conducting initial editorial screening, and ensuring compliance with the journal's focus, scope, and author guidelines.
Peer-Review Coordination: Selecting qualified and independent reviewers, managing the double-blind peer-review process, and evaluating reviewer recommendations.
Editorial Decision-Making: Making decisions regarding manuscript acceptance, revision, or rejection based on scientific merit, methodological rigor, originality, relevance, and research integrity.
Publication Ethics: Ensuring compliance with policies concerning plagiarism, authorship, conflicts of interest, research misconduct, research ethics, and the responsible use of artificial intelligence.
Research Integrity Assessment: Addressing concerns involving data accuracy, environmental monitoring results, laboratory findings, statistical analyses, scientific reporting, or other matters affecting research reliability.
Manuscript Revision and Production: Coordinating manuscript revisions, copyediting, proofreading, layout preparation, and publication processes.
Post-Publication Responsibilities: Managing corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, and other post-publication matters when required.
Confidentiality: Protecting unpublished manuscripts, confidential research information, reviewer identities, and editorial correspondence.
Publication Management: Supporting accurate bibliographic metadata, article accessibility, publication regularity, and appropriate scholarly archiving.
Quality Improvement: Periodically reviewing editorial procedures and publication policies to maintain scientific quality and consistency with recognized international publishing standards.

Each editorial position operates according to the responsibilities assigned by the journal.

Final editorial authority rests with the Editor-in-Chief or another editor formally authorized to make the relevant decision.

5. Editorial Independence

BANUA is committed to maintaining editorial independence from its publishing institution, institutional leadership, sponsors, funding organizations, commercial interests, and other external parties.

Manuscripts must be evaluated based on scientific quality, originality, methodological validity, relevance to environmental health sciences, ethical compliance, and potential contributions to scientific knowledge.

Editorial decisions must not be improperly influenced by:

Authors' institutional affiliations or academic positions.
Nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, or other personal characteristics unrelated to scientific merit.
Personal or professional relationships.
Institutional interests or administrative pressure.
Financial contributions, sponsorships, or publication fees.
Commercial interests or external funding relationships.
Other circumstances that may compromise independent scientific judgment.

The publishing institution may provide administrative, financial, and operational support but must not improperly influence peer-review outcomes or editorial decisions.

Editors and reviewers are required to disclose relevant conflicts of interest.

When an editor has a financial, institutional, personal, or professional relationship that may compromise impartiality, the manuscript must be handled by an appropriately qualified and independent editor.

Manuscripts submitted by members of the Editorial Board must undergo the same scientific and ethical evaluation standards as other submissions.

Editorial Board membership does not provide preferential treatment or guarantee manuscript acceptance.

6. Relationship Between Ownership and Editorial Governance

BANUA distinguishes institutional publishing responsibilities from independent editorial governance.

Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu, as the publishing institution, provides the organizational framework, administrative support, and publishing infrastructure necessary to sustain journal operations.

The Department of Environmental Health is responsible for coordinating journal management within the institutional publishing structure.

The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Team are responsible for implementing editorial policies, managing manuscript evaluation, coordinating peer review, maintaining scientific quality, and making publication decisions.

This division of responsibilities is intended to:

Protect editorial independence and scientific objectivity.
Prevent inappropriate institutional or commercial interference.
Ensure transparent accountability for journal management.
Maintain the integrity of the peer-review process.
Support fair treatment of authors and reviewers.
Strengthen the reliability and credibility of published scientific research.

Institutional administrative authority does not automatically confer authority to determine manuscript acceptance or rejection.

Editorial decisions must remain consistent with the journal's scientific standards and publication ethics requirements.

Any institutional arrangement affecting editorial authority should be documented appropriately and communicated transparently when relevant.

7. Financial and Operational Transparency

BANUA is committed to transparent financial and operational management in support of ethical and sustainable scholarly publishing.

The journal provides information about applicable publication-related fees through its official website.

The published fee structure includes:

Article Submission Fee: IDR 0 (Free).
Fast-Track Review Fee: IDR 700,000 for the optional expedited review process.
Article Processing Charge (APC): IDR 350,000 for accepted manuscripts.

The journal provides opportunities for fee waivers when authors lack sufficient financial resources, subject to the applicable journal procedures.

All publication-related fees must be administered in accordance with the journal's officially published fee policy and relevant institutional financial requirements.

Payment of publication fees does not guarantee manuscript acceptance.

The optional fast-track review service must not compromise the scientific quality, independence, or integrity of the editorial and peer-review processes.

Editorial decisions must be based on scientific merit, methodological quality, originality, and ethical compliance rather than financial considerations.

The journal's publishing institution is responsible for providing appropriate operational support to maintain the publication platform, editorial activities, and accessibility of published articles.

Any changes in publication fees, waiver arrangements, or applicable financial procedures should be communicated transparently through the journal's official website.

BANUA remains committed to maintaining financial accountability while protecting editorial independence and ensuring fair access to scholarly publication opportunities.

8. Transparency and Accountability

BANUA: Jurnal Kesehatan Lingkungan recognizes that transparency in journal ownership, publishing responsibilities, editorial leadership, and institutional management is essential for maintaining the confidence of authors, reviewers, readers, and the wider scientific community.

The journal makes relevant information available through its official website, including:

Journal identity, aims, scope, and publication details.
Publishing institution and institutional management.
Electronic and print ISSN information.
Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor, and Editorial Board membership.
Editorial affiliations and relevant professional information.
Peer-review procedures and editorial decision-making policies.
Publication frequency and submission requirements.
Publication ethics, plagiarism, and research integrity policies.
Authorship criteria and conflict-of-interest requirements.
Open-access licensing, copyright, and article processing charges.
Policies concerning corrections, retractions, and post-publication discussion.
Official communication channels and Editorial Office contact information.

The journal is committed to maintaining accurate, accessible, and regularly updated information concerning its editorial and publishing activities.

Changes to the publishing institution, editorial appointments, journal management, publication frequency, or operational arrangements will be communicated through the relevant sections of the journal's official website when appropriate.

BANUA follows recognized principles of transparency, fairness, accountability, and responsible scholarly publishing, including relevant recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The journal seeks to maintain a clear separation between institutional publishing responsibilities and independent editorial decision-making.

Through transparent governance and responsible management, BANUA aims to strengthen the credibility, scientific quality, accessibility, and sustainability of environmental health research publications.