Edukasi: Journal of Christian Religious Education is committed to upholding scholarly publication ethics, academic integrity, and scientific responsibility throughout the publication process. These ethics apply to all parties involved, including authors, editors, reviewers, and publishers.

All published manuscripts must adhere to the principles of originality, academic honesty, objectivity, transparency, and respect for scholarly values and the ethics of Christian Religious Education.

1. Author Responsibilities
   Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted manuscripts are original, unpublished, and not under review in any other journal. Authors must present data, ideas, research findings, literature reviews, or educational reflections honestly, accurately, and responsibly.

All citations, theories, data, or ideas from other sources must be properly acknowledged according to academic standards. Authors must not engage in plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification, source manipulation, duplicate publication, or any other academic misconduct.

If the research involves students, teachers, schools, churches, families, or communities, authors must ensure informed consent, data confidentiality, human dignity, and ethical research impact.

2. Editor Responsibilities
   Editors are responsible for evaluating manuscripts based on relevance to the journal scope, academic quality, originality, methodology, scientific contribution, and compliance with publication ethics.

Editorial decisions must be objective, fair, and free from discrimination. Editors must maintain manuscript confidentiality and must not use submitted information for personal gain. The review process must be transparent, professional, and aligned with journal standards.

3. Reviewer Responsibilities
   Reviewers must provide objective, critical, constructive, and timely evaluations. Assessments should include relevance, originality, methodology, analysis, scholarly contribution, references, and writing quality.

Reviewers must maintain confidentiality and must not use unpublished information for personal or academic advantage. They must report any suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, conflict of interest, or ethical violations to the editor.

4. Plagiarism and Originality
   All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism and demonstrate academic originality. The journal may use plagiarism detection tools. Manuscripts violating ethical standards will be rejected. If detected after publication, corrections or retraction may be issued.
5. Conflict of Interest
   Authors, editors, and reviewers must disclose any conflicts of interest that may influence objectivity. These may include personal, academic, institutional, financial, or other relationships. Individuals with conflicts must not participate in the review or decision-making process.
6. Research Ethics in Christian Religious Education
   Research must respect academic values, educational ethics, and human dignity. Studies involving human participants must ensure consent, confidentiality, data protection, and avoid discrimination or misuse of information.
7. Corrections and Retraction
   The journal reserves the right to issue corrections, clarifications, or retractions in cases of serious errors, plagiarism, or ethical violations. All actions are conducted transparently and responsibly.
8. Publisher Responsibilities
   The publisher supports the editorial process and maintains journal quality without interfering in editorial decisions. The publisher is committed to ensuring the journal remains a credible and professional academic platform.