Ownership and Management Information

OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT INFORMATION

Publisher and journal management

CITIZEN: Jurnal Ilmiah Multidisiplin Indonesia (e-ISSN 2807-5994) is published by CV. DAS Mitra Edukasi and managed by DAS Institute. Legal owner: [VERIFIED_LEGAL_OWNER]. The owner’s relationship to the publisher and management organisation is [OWNERSHIP_AND_DELEGATION_DESCRIPTION]. Organisational website: https://das-institute.com/. Changes in these roles are dated and publicly disclosed; the journal title and affiliations must not imply a different owner.

Editorial responsibilities
The Editor-in-Chief is Dr. Toufan Aldian Syah and the Managing Editor is Dr. Asep Sunarko, as listed on the journal website when this policy package was checked. The Editor-in-Chief leads editorial policy and scholarly publication decisions. The managing editor coordinates administration and publication records. The current editorial-team page lists names, affiliations and roles and is updated when appointments change. Reviewers provide independent scholarly assessment.

Editorial independence
The publisher provides organisational and technical support while respecting independent editorial judgement. Decisions depend on scope, methodological soundness, scholarly contribution and ethical compliance. Fees, waivers, advertisements, institutional relationships, ownership interests and conference arrangements must not purchase acceptance or override review. Conflicted manuscripts are handled independently under the conflict-of-interest policy.

Transparency and accountability
The website must provide a working editorial contact, publisher address, ownership statement, current editorial roster, peer-review description, fees and waiver terms, and relevant policies. Changes in publisher, legal owner or management must be dated and publicly explained. The journal must not imply COPE membership, Elsevier affiliation or Scopus indexing merely because it consults those organisations’ guidance.

Contact and complaints
Editorial correspondence: info@das-institute.com. The public Contact page lists the correspondence address as Perum Palm Estate No. 6A, Penambongan, Purbalingga, Jawa Tengah 53314, Indonesia; principal contact M. Arif Setyanugraha, S.T., M.E. The current contact page is https://journal.das-institute.com/index.php/citizen-journal/about/contact. Complaints involving the Editor-in-Chief are independently handled by an uninvolved senior editor or external adviser; publisher-related complaints require independent external assessment. The misconduct policy describes routing and appeals.