Journal History

JPPM has grown from a departmental journal into a nationally leading, internationally oriented forum for nonformal education. The milestones below summarise its development.

Milestones

2014	First published (print) First published by Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, managed by the Department of Nonformal Education, as a forum for research (p-ISSN 2355-1615).
2015	Online publication The journal moves to the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, with e-ISSN 2477-2992 and DOIs registered with Crossref under prefix 10.21831.
2017	Collaboration with IKAPENFI The journal begins publishing in collaboration with the Indonesian Association of Non-formal Education Academics (IKAPENFI), strengthening its national network of authors and reviewers.
2019	SINTA 3 accreditation In its first national accreditation process, JPPM received SINTA 3 from Vol. 06 No. 1 (2019), placing the journal in the third national accreditation rank.
2023	Re-accreditation JPPM received SINTA 2 accreditation from Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023), according to Decree Number 177/E/KPT/2024.
2026	International standards The journal adopts new English-language templates and a full set of policies in line with COPE guidance: double-anonymous peer review, a 4-month decision timeline, plagiarism, AI, and open access policies. It is indexed in DOAJ, SINTA, Garuda, and Google Scholar, with 143 citations in Scopus (as of October 2026).
2027	Authors keep copyright From 2027, authors retain copyright of their articles, published under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.