Aims & Scope
Aims & Scope
Dharmaputra Medical Law Journal (DMLJ)
Jurnal Dharmaputra Hukum Kesehatan
P-ISSN: 3124-1964 | E-ISSN: 3124-1840
Journal Aims
To advance high-quality, rigorous scholarship in the field of medical law through double-blind peer review and adherence to international publication standards, establishing DMLJ as the leading Indonesian journal in this discipline.
To serve as a scholarly bridge between legal academia and medical practice, facilitating dialogue among lawyers, clinicians, ethicists, policymakers, and researchers on pressing medico-legal issues affecting Indonesian society.
To contribute evidence-based, scholarly analysis that informs health law reform, regulatory development, and the improvement of healthcare governance within Indonesia, drawing on comparative international experience.
To promote the visibility of Indonesian medical law scholarship on the global stage through Diamond Open Access, bilingual publication, and strategic indexing in international databases including DOAJ and Scopus.
Scope of the Journal
DMLJ welcomes original scholarly contributions that address the legal, regulatory, ethical, and governance dimensions of medicine, healthcare systems, and public health. Articles may be theoretical, doctrinal, empirical, or comparative in approach. The journal's scope encompasses but is not limited to the following thematic areas:
Civil and criminal liability of healthcare providers, medical negligence, standards of care, and dispute resolution including mediation and health courts.
Analysis of health legislation, regulatory reform, licensing regimes, national health insurance (JKN/BPJS Kesehatan), and comparative health law.
Informed consent, end-of-life decisions, organ transplantation, reproductive technology, genetics, clinical trial ethics, and the governance of human subjects research.
Right to access care, right to information, confidentiality, refusal of treatment, patient safety law, rights of vulnerable and marginalised patient groups.
Professional discipline, disciplinary tribunals (MKDKI/MKEK), licensing and registration, scope of practice, and employment law in healthcare settings.
Regulation of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, BPOM oversight, drug pricing, access to essential medicines, and product liability in healthcare.
Legal frameworks governing health financing, social health insurance, private insurance regulation, payment mechanisms, and equitable access to covered services.
Legal frameworks for telemedicine, e-prescribing, electronic health records, health data privacy, AI in diagnostics, and cross-border digital health services.
Article Types Accepted
DMLJ accepts the following types of scholarly contributions:
Language Policy
English is the preferred language of submission and is recommended for authors seeking maximum international reach and indexing visibility. All structural elements — title, abstract, keywords, and headings — must be provided in English.
Bahasa Indonesia manuscripts are fully accepted. Authors submitting in Bahasa Indonesia must provide an English title, an English abstract (minimum 200 words), and English keywords. The full text may remain in Bahasa Indonesia.
Out of Scope
The following categories of submission fall outside DMLJ's scope and will not be considered for peer review:
Purely clinical articles without a legal angle. Manuscripts that are exclusively clinical in nature — reporting clinical findings, treatment outcomes, diagnostic accuracy studies, or pharmacological trials — without an identifiable legal, regulatory, or ethical dimension will not be considered.
General medical or biomedical research. Articles whose primary contribution is to biomedical science, epidemiology, or clinical medicine — without substantive legal, policy, or ethical analysis — are not within scope and should be directed to clinical or public health journals.
Policy advocacy without scholarly analysis. Opinion pieces, editorials, or advocacy documents that propose policy positions without grounding in legal analysis, empirical evidence, or engagement with the academic literature are not suitable for submission. All contributions must meet scholarly standards.
Principal Contact: Gede Krisna Udiana, S.K.M., M.H.Kes. | +62 812-3898-787 | udiana.krisna@gmail.com