Article Processing Charges

Article Processing Charge (APC) – IDR 600,000 per Article

Buletin Dharmas Andalas (BDA) is committed to supporting sustainable and accessible open-access scholarly publishing. To support the editorial, production, and online publication processes, the journal applies an Article Processing Charge (APC) of IDR 600,000 per accepted article.

The APC is charged only after a manuscript has been accepted for publication. Authors are not required to make any payment during manuscript submission or peer review.

Article Processing Charge Policy

  • No Submission Fees – Authors may submit manuscripts without any submission charges.

  • No Peer Review Fees – There are no fees associated with the peer-review and editorial evaluation process.

  • Article Processing Charge (APC): IDR 600,000 per Article – Authors of manuscripts accepted for publication are required to pay an APC of IDR 600,000.

  • No Access Fees – All published articles are freely accessible to readers worldwide under the journal's open-access policy.

  • No Hidden Charges – BDA does not impose any additional or undisclosed publication charges beyond the stated APC.

Payment of the APC does not influence editorial decisions, peer-review outcomes, or manuscript acceptance. All manuscripts are evaluated solely based on their academic quality, relevance, originality, and compliance with the journal's editorial policies.

Commitment to Open Science

Buletin Dharmas Andalas (BDA) supports the principles of open-access scholarly communication and aims to ensure that published research is accessible to the global academic community.

Through its open-access publishing model, BDA seeks to:

  • Encourage broad dissemination of scholarly research.

  • Improve accessibility of scientific knowledge to researchers, practitioners, students, and the wider community.

  • Support equitable access to published research without subscription or reader-access barriers.

  • Maintain responsible and sustainable scholarly publishing practices.

Funding and Sustainability

BDA operates under an academic and non-commercial publishing model supported by institutional resources, academic partnerships, editorial contributions, and Article Processing Charges.

The IDR 600,000 APC contributes to the operational costs associated with manuscript processing, editorial management, publication production, digital infrastructure, online hosting, and long-term journal sustainability.

The journal remains committed to maintaining academic integrity and editorial independence regardless of financial considerations.

Transparency and Ethical Publishing

Buletin Dharmas Andalas (BDA) is committed to transparent and ethical scholarly publishing practices.

The journal ensures that:

  • All publication charges are clearly disclosed to authors.

  • There are no hidden or undisclosed publication fees.

  • APC payment does not affect peer-review or editorial decisions.

  • Editorial decisions are based on the scholarly merit and quality of submitted manuscripts.

  • Financial considerations are kept separate from the editorial and peer-review processes.

  • Published articles remain freely accessible to readers.

Author Rights and Copyright

Authors retain the copyright ownership of their published work.

All articles published in Buletin Dharmas Andalas (BDA) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, which permits sharing and adaptation of the work for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate attribution is given and derivative works are distributed under the same license.