Indonesian Red Crescent Humanitarian Journal

Journal Name	:	Indonesian Red Crescent Humanitarian Journal
Abbreviation	:	Indones. Red Crescent Humanit. J.
ISSN	:	Online (2829-8500), Print (2829-8497)
DOI	:	10.56744 by Crossref
Accreditation Rank	:	Rank 4 / SINTA 4
Accreditation Validity	:	Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023) – Vol. 6 No. 2 (2027)
Accreditation Decree	:	156/C/C3/KPT/2026
Editor-in-Chief	:	Arisman Adnan, Ph.D.
Managing Editor	:	dr. Prita Kusumaningsih, SpOG
Peer Review	:	Double-Blind Peer Review
Publication Frequency	:	Twice a year: June and December
First Published	:	June 2022
Publisher	:	Bulan Sabit Merah Indonesia
Location	:	Jakarta, Indonesia
Contact	:	irchum.bsmi@gmail.com
Access	:	Open Access

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About IRCHUM

Indonesian Red Crescent Humanitarian Journal (IRCHUM) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Bulan Sabit Merah Indonesia. The journal publishes original and high-quality scholarly works related to humanitarian action and social-humanitarian activities.

IRCHUM provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, academics, humanitarian professionals, health professionals, volunteers, policymakers, and practitioners to advance knowledge and practice in disaster management, emergency response, community empowerment, humanitarian services, social programs, volunteering, vulnerable populations, and related humanitarian issues.

Manuscripts in the fields of health, medicine, nursing, and midwifery are welcomed insofar as they are clearly situated within a humanitarian context, including disaster response, emergency care, community health, humanitarian medical services, public health outreach, and support for vulnerable communities.

Manuscripts that discuss health, medical, nursing, or other professional topics without a clear relationship to humanitarian, community, emergency, disaster, vulnerable-population, or social-humanitarian contexts may be considered outside the journal's Focus and Scope.

IRCHUM is published twice a year by Bulan Sabit Merah Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, and applies a double-blind peer-review process to manuscripts that proceed to external review.

For detailed information on the journal's subject coverage, accepted manuscript types, and submission boundaries, please refer to the Focus and Scope.

Peer Review

All submitted manuscripts first undergo an Initial Editorial Assessment to evaluate compliance with the journal's Focus and Scope, Author Guidelines, publication ethics, research integrity requirements, and basic scholarly quality.

Manuscripts that successfully complete the Initial Editorial Assessment are evaluated through a double-blind peer-review process by at least two independent qualified reviewers.

Reviewers evaluate manuscripts substantively, including the relevance and originality of the research, methodological adequacy, quality of analysis and synthesis, clarity of findings, scholarly contribution, use of relevant literature, and compliance with publication ethics.

Reviewer recommendations are advisory. Revised manuscripts are evaluated by the editorial team to determine whether the reviewers' comments have been adequately addressed. The final editorial decision remains the responsibility of the Editor-in-Chief and is based on reviewer assessments, the adequacy of revisions, scholarly quality, publication ethics, and the journal's editorial standards.

Reviewers must maintain manuscript confidentiality, disclose relevant conflicts of interest, and comply with the journal's policy prohibiting the use of Artificial Intelligence tools to analyse, assess, or generate peer-review comments from submitted manuscripts.

For complete information on the editorial and peer-review workflow, please refer to the Peer Review Process .

Publication Schedule

IRCHUM is published twice a year, with regular issues scheduled in:

June · December

Manuscripts are processed continuously throughout the year and are not required to wait for an approaching issue before entering the editorial and peer-review process.

IRCHUM may apply an Issue in Progress or Online First publication model, allowing final and publication-ready articles to be published progressively within the corresponding regular issue.

Publication Charges

Article Submission Charge (ASC)

IDR 0

IRCHUM does not charge authors for manuscript submission or Initial Editorial Assessment.

Article Processing Charge (APC)

IDR 500,000

Per accepted article, effective from Vol. 5 No. 1 (June 2026).

The APC is payable only after the manuscript has formally received an Accepted editorial decision.

Payment of the APC does not influence peer review, editorial decisions, or acceptance for publication.

The journal does not guarantee acceptance, rapid publication, publication in a particular issue, or issuance of a Letter of Acceptance before the manuscript has formally received an Accepted editorial decision.

Please refer to the journal's Publication Charges Policy for complete information on applicable charges and payment procedures.

Submit Your Manuscript

Authors should first ensure that their manuscript is consistent with the Focus and Scope and complies with the journal's Author Guidelines.

Manuscripts must be prepared using the latest official IRCHUM Article Template and must satisfy all requirements specified in the Submission Preparation Checklist.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that all required statements and supporting documents are provided where applicable, including authorship and contributorship information, conflict of interest disclosure, funding information, Artificial Intelligence use disclosure, Data Availability Statement, and ethical approval or ethical compliance information.

Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the IRCHUM Open Journal Systems (OJS). Registration and login are required to submit a manuscript and to monitor its editorial status.

Before submitting, authors should review the following:

Focus and Scope
Author Guidelines
Article Template
Submission Preparation Checklist
Publication Ethics
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy
Research Ethics and Ethical Clearance Policy
Data Availability and Reproducibility Policy
Publication Charges Policy

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Open Access

IRCHUM operates as an Open Access journal. All published articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, without subscription fees, access charges, or embargo periods.

Starting from Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025), articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Authors retain copyright to their published articles and grant IRCHUM the right of first publication in accordance with the journal's Copyright and Licensing policies.

For complete information, please refer to the journal's Copyright Notice and Open Access Policy.

Publication Ethics and Research Integrity

IRCHUM is committed to maintaining high standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, transparency, and responsible scholarly publishing.

Authors, reviewers, and editors are expected to comply with journal policies concerning originality and plagiarism, authorship and contributorship, conflicts of interest, research misconduct, duplicate submission, data integrity, Artificial Intelligence use, ethical clearance, data availability, corrections, retractions, and editorial appeals.

Research involving human participants and/or animals must comply with applicable ethical requirements. Where ethical approval is required, authors must provide the relevant ethics committee information, approval number, and year of approval.

For complete information, please refer to the Publication Ethics and related journal policies.

Abstracting, Indexing, and Discovery

IRCHUM is indexed, abstracted, registered, or discoverable through the following scholarly databases, indexing services, DOI infrastructures, and discovery platforms:

The journal continuously maintains and disseminates its article metadata through relevant scholarly indexing, DOI registration, and discovery services.

Announcements

Implementation of Article Processing Charge (APC)

23-04-2026

The Editorial Team of the Indonesian Red Crescent Humanitarian Journal hereby announces that, pursuant to the Decree of the Director General of Research and Development No. 156/C/C3/KPT/2026, the journal has been officially accredited at Rank 4 for the period from Volume 2, Number 1, 2023 through Volume 6, Number 2, 2027.

In line with this accreditation and in order to ensure the sustainability and quality enhancement of the journal’s publication process, the journal shall implement an Article Processing Charge (APC) commencing from Volume 5, Number 1 (June 2026). Authors of accepted manuscripts shall be required to pay an APC of IDR 500,000 per article.

This policy shall apply to all manuscripts that have been submitted and are scheduled for publication in Volume 5, Number 1 (June 2026). Authors who have previously submitted their manuscripts may be requested to reconfirm their willingness to proceed with the publication process under this policy.

Further instructions regarding confirmation will be communicated directly to the respective authors.

It is hereby noted that the journal previously did not impose any publication fees. The implementation of the APC is intended to support editorial and publishing operations while maintaining the journal’s standards in peer review, editing, and dissemination.

This decision is final and binding upon all submitting authors.

Sincerely,
Editorial Team
Indonesian Red Crescent Humanitarian Journal