Focus and Scope

Focus

AMUYA: Indonesian Journal of Management Reviews focuses on scholarly research, evidence-based policy analysis, and critical reviews concerning public policy, governance, and development planning in religious affairs and the broader religion sector. The journal examines how religious policies are formulated, implemented, coordinated, monitored, and evaluated within public institutions and society. It promotes theoretically informed, methodologically rigorous, and empirically grounded scholarship that advances understanding of the relationships between religious affairs, public administration, institutional performance, social inclusion, human rights, interreligious relations, and sustainable development.

AMUYA particularly welcomes research that bridges academic inquiry and policy practice by providing comparative perspectives, evaluating policy effectiveness, identifying governance challenges, and developing actionable recommendations for policymakers, public administrators, researchers, and development practitioners in Indonesia and internationally.

Scope

AMUYA: Indonesian Journal of Management Reviews welcomes original research articles, policy papers, systematic and integrative literature reviews, comparative studies, and critical conceptual analyses within the following areas:

  1. Religious Public Policy and Policy Analysis
    Policy formulation, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation in religious affairs; regulatory frameworks; policy instruments; policy coherence; evidence-informed decision-making; and the analysis of policy impacts and outcomes.

  2. Governance and Public Administration of Religious Affairs
    Institutional governance, administrative reform, interagency coordination, decentralization, public accountability, institutional capacity, performance management, and the governance of ministries and public institutions responsible for religious affairs.

  3. Religious Development Planning and Public Investment
    Strategic planning, national and regional development planning in the religion sector, performance indicators, public expenditure, resource allocation, program prioritization, and the integration of religious affairs into sustainable development agendas.

  4. Religious Services and Public Service Innovation
    The governance and quality of public services related to marriage registration, pilgrimage and religious travel administration, halal services, religious education administration, religious guidance, and other public services within the mandate of religious institutions.

  5. Freedom of Religion or Belief and Rights-Based Governance
    Public policies concerning freedom of religion or belief, equal citizenship, minority protection, nondiscrimination, religious accommodation, and the institutional implementation of constitutional and human rights guarantees.

  6. Interreligious Relations, Social Cohesion, and Conflict Management
    Policies and governance mechanisms addressing religious diversity, interfaith dialogue, religious harmony, social cohesion, conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding, and community participation.

  7. Religious Moderation and Social Resilience
    Policy design and evaluation concerning religious moderation, civic engagement, pluralism, community resilience, social trust, and the prevention of discrimination and identity-based conflict.

  8. Religious Institutions, Civil Society, and Public Policy
    The roles of religious organizations, faith-based organizations, civil society, philanthropic institutions, and community networks in policy advocacy, public service delivery, social protection, humanitarian action, and sustainable development.

  9. Digital Transformation and Data-Driven Religious Governance
    Digital public services, e-governance, administrative data, artificial intelligence, data analytics, digital inclusion, information security, and the opportunities and risks of technological innovation in religious policy and administration.

  10. Public Finance, Performance, and Policy Evaluation
    Budget governance, public financial management, value for money, program effectiveness, monitoring and evaluation systems, impact assessment, risk management, and evidence-based institutional performance improvement in the religion sector.

  11. Religion, Society, and Socioeconomic Development
    The relationships between religious policy and social welfare, education, poverty reduction, gender equality, community empowerment, philanthropy, economic inclusion, and the achievement of relevant Sustainable Development Goals.

  12. Comparative and International Religious Policy
    Comparative studies of religious governance, state–religion relations, institutional arrangements, regulatory models, and policy innovations across countries, with particular attention to lessons relevant to Indonesia and other plural societies.

AMUYA: Indonesian Journal of Management Reviews prioritizes manuscripts that demonstrate a clear research problem, a well-defined theoretical or analytical framework, transparent and appropriate methods, substantive engagement with relevant scholarship, and findings that contribute to academic debates or inform public policy and institutional practice. Submissions should offer analytical depth and a clear contribution beyond general description. The journal welcomes qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research, as well as rigorous conceptual and review articles, provided that their arguments are well supported and their relevance to religious public policy, governance, or development planning is explicit.