JPPMI | JOURNAL INFORMATION
Advancing evidence-informed community engagement, empowerment, and sustainable community development.
Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pengembangan Masyarakat Indonesia (JPPMI) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal dedicated to community engagement, community empowerment, and evidence-informed development initiatives.
The journal provides an academic platform for documenting, evaluating, and disseminating community-based interventions implemented by academics, practitioners, government institutions, civil society organizations, and other relevant stakeholders.
JPPMI aims to strengthen scholarly community engagement through systematic needs assessment, intervention design, meaningful stakeholder participation, transparent implementation, appropriate outcome evaluation, and consideration of program sustainability.
The journal welcomes multidisciplinary contributions that address identified community needs through collaborative, participatory, culturally responsive, and sustainable approaches.
The primary focus of JPPMI is the implementation and evaluation of community-based programs designed to strengthen community knowledge, skills, participation, institutional capacity, resilience, independence, well-being, and sustainable use of local resources.
JPPMI prioritizes scholarly articles that demonstrate substantive community engagement and provide credible evidence of program implementation and outcomes, rather than merely describing activities.
JPPMI considers multidisciplinary community engagement and development manuscripts within the following seven thematic areas. All submissions must demonstrate a substantive community-based intervention or development component.
SUBJECT AREA 01
Participatory community development, social inclusion, community resilience, poverty reduction, institutional capacity building, social innovation, volunteerism, and empowerment programs for vulnerable or underserved populations.
SUBJECT AREA 02
Community health promotion, disease prevention, nutrition education, maternal and child health, environmental health, sanitation, mental health promotion, healthy lifestyles, and community-based health empowerment initiatives.
SUBJECT AREA 03
Community education, digital and financial literacy, scientific literacy, inclusive education, teacher and youth development, vocational skills, lifelong learning, and community-oriented educational innovations.
SUBJECT AREA 04
Development of micro, small, and medium enterprises; entrepreneurship; cooperatives; financial inclusion; local product innovation; creative industries; community marketing; and economic empowerment initiatives.
SUBJECT AREA 05
Application, adaptation, and transfer of appropriate technology, digital platforms, information systems, community-oriented product development, and technological innovations designed to address identified community needs.
SUBJECT AREA 06
Environmental conservation, waste management, climate adaptation, food security, sustainable agriculture, fisheries, coastal and rural development, disaster preparedness, and sustainable management of local resources.
SUBJECT AREA 07
Preservation and application of local knowledge, cultural development, social cohesion, intercultural engagement, community arts, and culturally responsive approaches to community empowerment and development.
JPPMI primarily considers original scholarly articles documenting and critically evaluating:
Article Classification: These categories describe eligible forms of community engagement within JPPMI's principal manuscript type. They do not establish separate manuscript types unless otherwise specified in the journal's official submission policies.
Submitted manuscripts should provide transparent and academically meaningful reporting of the following components:
| Component | Expected Reporting |
|---|---|
| Community Context | Characteristics of the target community and identified problems. |
| Needs Assessment | Relevant baseline evidence and rationale for the intervention. |
| Community Participation | Community partners, participants, and stakeholder involvement. |
| Intervention Methods | Program design, implementation stages, setting, and procedures. |
| Evaluation | Outcome indicators and appropriate evaluation methods. |
| Results and Discussion | Evidence-supported results, critical interpretation, and relevant literature. |
| Limitations | Implementation constraints and limitations of outcome evaluation. |
| Sustainability | Follow-up plans and realistic potential for continuity or replication. |
| Ethics | Relevant permissions, informed consent, privacy safeguards, and approvals where required. |
JPPMI does not normally consider manuscripts that fall into the following categories:
Important Distinction: Conducting an activity in a community does not automatically qualify it as a scholarly community engagement article. Manuscripts must demonstrate an identifiable community need, substantive intervention, appropriate evaluation, and credible evidence supporting reported outcomes.
Manuscript suitability is assessed according to journal scope, scholarly quality, relevance of community needs, intervention design, stakeholder participation, methodological transparency, ethical compliance, and strength of outcome evidence.
Community engagement programs may use quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method evaluation approaches. The appropriate evaluation method depends on the program objectives, context, and outcomes.
Statistical significance is not a universal requirement for community engagement publications. However, authors must provide credible and proportionate evidence for claims concerning knowledge, skills, behavior, institutional capacity, or other community outcomes.
