DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/ez5tj-qkb08
Marking its 9th anniversary, RJI convened a national symposium and training program in December 2025 that brought together 250 journal managers to explore topics ranging from AI and research integrity to OJS innovations, reaffirming its impact and partnership with PKP in advancing scholarly publishing.
Established in December 2016, Relawan Jurnal Indonesia (RJI; Indonesian Journal Volunteers) has supported the improvement of thousands of scholarly journals in Indonesia. RJI is the largest Open Journal Systems (OJS) user community in the world with 24,783 scholarly journals. Serving as a national network for scholarly journal managers, RJI is committed to strengthening a credible, open, and integrated scientific publishing ecosystem. Its activities include journal mentoring, webinars and workshops, journal manager training programs, and professional certification in online scientific publishing.
Over the past two years, RJI has supported PKP in engaging with Indonesia’s scholarly publishing community through webinars on persistent identifiers, peer review plugins, and upgrading OJS to the latest version.
In celebration of its 9th anniversary, RJI organized the National Symposium for Scholarly Journal Managers and a Training-of-Trainers program in Purwokerto, Central Java, Indonesia, between December 11th and 13th, 2025, under the theme “Developing an Integrated Scientific Publication System in the Digital Era.” The event was attended by 250 participants and covered topics such as artificial intelligence, publication ethics, research integrity, journal quality, data validation, archiving, dissemination, and Scopus indexation.
During the event, PKP’s former Indonesian local liaison, Maria Lamury, introduced PKP’s newest plugin in OJS, the Publication Facts Label, which promotes media literacy and integrity in academic publishing. The recording is published on RJI’s YouTube Channel. Through this event, RJI aimed to strengthen the skills and competencies of participants in managing online journals using OJS.
On the 9th Anniversary of RJI, Urooj Nizami, PKP Associate Director of Community Engagement and Outreach, has this to say, “RJI has been a dependable partner within the Indonesian journal publishing ecosystem, strengthening capacity, skills, and expertise in service of a more meaningfully interconnected scholarly world, one in which research outputs are both available and accessible to all. The community RJI has cultivated stands as a compelling model for what other local organizations might aspire to build. PKP sends its warmest congratulations on this first monumental nine years of impact”.
