About the Journal

Journal of Government Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year in March and September by Department of Government Studies, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Muhammadiyah Kendari.

Jurnal Parabela aims to publish conceptual, review, and research articles in the field of Governmental Science and promotes scholarly, theoretical, pragmatic, and contemporary research, which makes a clear conceptual and methodological contribution to existing international literature.

This journal covers the areas of e-government, public policy and services, legislative processes, bureaucracy, leadership, government ethics, government communication, local politics, political economy, and community empowerment and is open to methodological and conceptual approaches.