Authors should submit only original work that is not plagiarized and not has been published or being considered elsewhere. Turnitin will be used by the editorial team to check for similarities between the submitted manuscript with existing literature. Madika: Jurnal Politik dan Governance will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Before submitting articles to reviewers, those are first checked for similarity/plagiarism tool, by a member of the editorial team. The papers submitted to Madika: Jurnal Politik dan Governance must have a similarity level of less than 25%.