Ethical Clearance
JDEP (Jurnal Dinamika Ekonomi Pembangunan) requires research to respect the rights, dignity, safety, and privacy of participants. This policy applies to research involving human participants, personal information, or sensitive data in economics and related social sciences.
1. Compliance with Ethical Requirements
Authors must comply with applicable national regulations, institutional requirements, and ethical standards relevant to their discipline and research setting.
Researchers are responsible for determining the ethical review requirements applicable to their study before recruitment and data collection begin.
2. Ethical Approval and Exemptions
Where required, research must receive approval from an authorised Research Ethics Committee, Institutional Review Board, or equivalent body before it begins.
Where an exemption applies, it must follow the procedures of the relevant institution or authorised body. Researchers must not assume that a study is exempt solely because they consider it low risk.
Permission from a company, government agency, community leader, or research site does not replace ethical approval where such approval is required.
JDEP does not issue ethical clearance or provide retrospective ethical approval.
3. Voluntary Participation and Informed Consent
Participation must be voluntary. Participants must receive sufficient information about the study’s purpose, procedures, foreseeable risks, confidentiality, and intended use of their information.
Consent must be obtained and documented in a manner appropriate to the research context and applicable requirements. Any waiver of consent must be authorised by the relevant body.
Participation or refusal must not affect access to employment, public services, financial assistance, or other benefits.
4. Protection of Vulnerable Participants
Additional safeguards must be provided where participants may face coercion, dependency, limited decision-making capacity, or heightened risks.
Where participants cannot legally provide consent, researchers must obtain permission from an authorised representative and seek participant assent where appropriate.
5. Privacy and Confidentiality
Researchers must protect personal and sensitive information against unauthorised access, disclosure, and misuse.
Anonymisation, participant codes, and aggregation may be used to protect identities. These measures must not alter the substantive meaning of the data or misrepresent the findings.
Identifiable quotations, photographs, recordings, or case descriptions require appropriate consent for publication. Consent to participate does not automatically constitute consent to publish identifiable information.
6. Secondary and Organisational Data
Researchers must comply with the access conditions, permissions, and confidentiality obligations attached to secondary datasets.
Public availability does not remove the responsibility to consider privacy, re-identification, and potential harm. Studies using public aggregate data without identifiable personal information may not require ethical approval, depending on applicable requirements.
7. Applicable Standards
Ethical standards must be appropriate to the research discipline, study population, and institutional context.
The Declaration of Helsinki applies where research falls within its scope of medical research involving human participants. It is not a universal requirement for all economic and social research.
8. Editorial Oversight
JDEP may request clarification or supporting documentation concerning ethical approval, exemptions, participant consent, data access, or privacy safeguards.
Authors must provide accurate information and cooperate with reasonable editorial requests. Supporting documents must be handled confidentially.
Serious or unresolved ethical concerns may result in suspension of assessment, rejection, or appropriate post-publication action under the journal’s Publication Ethics policy.
Further Information
Questions about this policy may be directed to the editorial office through JDEP’s Contact page.
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