On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, the Law Faculty of Universitas Trisakti held a scientific discussion themed “Article Standards and Improvements: Establishing Journals Towards Scopus Indexing.” This event was designed to provide insights and guidance to lecturers, journal administrators, and students in their efforts to publish journals that can be indexed in Scopus.

The event, initiated by the Faculty’s Research and Community Service Council, was opened by Dr. Dra. Hj. Siti Nurbaiti, SH. MH, the Dean of the Law Faculty of Universitas Trisakti. She emphasized the importance of improving journal quality to meet international standards. “With this effort, we hope to enhance the competitiveness of our academics and researchers at the global level,” she said in her opening remarks.

The main speaker was Ridwan Arifin, S.H, LLM, a lecturer at the Law Faculty of Semarang State University. Ridwan Arifin is also known as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Indonesian Legal Studies (Scopus Q1), Managing Editor of Lex Scientia Law Review (Scopus Q2), and Managing Editor of Law and Legal Reform (Scopus) at Semarang State University. He shared his knowledge and experience in writing scientific articles to be accepted in Scopus-indexed journals, as well as managing and accelerating journals towards Scopus indexing within the Universitas Trisakti Law Faculty, and provided important tips and strategies to achieve this goal.

The event was moderated by Dr. Maria Silvya E. Wangga, SH, MH, Head of the Criminal Law Study Center at the Law Faculty of Trisakti University. Dr. Maria Silvya successfully led the discussion, and the plan to establish the Trisakti Criminal Law Review at the Criminal Law Study Center of the Law Faculty received support from the Dean, the Research and Community Service Council, and guidance from Mr. Ridwan.

With the organization of this event, the Law Faculty of Universitas Trisakti hopes to inspire and motivate lecturers, journal administrators, and students to continue creating and innovating in the field of legal research, and to improve the quality of academic publications in Indonesia.