Generative AI Policy

This policy covers generative artificial intelligence used in manuscripts and research materials submitted to Tamumatra: Jurnal Seni Pertunjukan. Authors remain responsible for their work's accuracy, originality, ethical integrity, and interpretation. An AI system cannot be an author because it cannot approve a manuscript or accept responsibility for it.

What authors must disclose

Disclose generative AI used to produce or substantially transform text, translations, code, analysis, images, musical material, scripts, movement sequences, or audiovisual content. State the tool and provider, version where available, date of use, purpose, and affected parts of the work. Explain how the authors checked and revised the output.

Describe use affecting research design, analysis, or results in the Methods or another appropriate research-process section. Disclose writing assistance in a separate declaration before the references. Ordinary spelling and grammar checking that makes no substantive generative contribution does not require a declaration.

Performing arts and arts education research

AI-generated choreography, music, scripts, images, and synthetic audio or video may be studied as research materials when their origin and role are explicitly identified and critically contextualized. Distinguish them from human performances, participant contributions, archival sources, and research observations. Describe the creative process, human artistic decisions, selection criteria, and relevant limitations. Label generated or substantially altered media in captions or accompanying descriptions.

Never present synthetic performances, invented interviews, fabricated classroom activities, artificial field notes, or nonexistent references as observed evidence. AI output cannot establish that a rehearsal, performance, interview, or learning event occurred. Verify citations against original sources and check musical, cultural, historical, and pedagogical claims against suitable evidence. Do not use generated material to conceal missing data or misrepresent findings.

Rights, consent, and cultural context

Consider permissions and attribution for source scripts, compositions, choreography, images, and recordings. Do not imitate an identifiable person's likeness or voice without appropriate consent and permission. Protect students, minors, participants, and performers whose materials could be exposed or repurposed through an AI service. Respect community protocols and restrictions for sacred performances, traditional knowledge, and culturally sensitive materials. Online availability does not remove the need to assess consent, attribution, and appropriate use.

Confidentiality in editorial work

Reviewers must not use generative AI to analyze or evaluate manuscripts, draft review comments, or upload any part of a manuscript or supporting files to an AI service. Editors may use AI for administrative or technical support only when confidentiality is protected. AI must not replace editorial judgment or make academic publication decisions. Any editorial assistance affecting evaluation must be disclosed, and editors remain accountable.

Authors and editors must not upload confidential manuscripts, review reports, unpublished research data, or identifiable participant information to public generative AI services.

Declaration wording and editorial assessment

A declaration may state: “During preparation of this work, the authors used [tool, provider, version, and date] for [purpose and affected content]. The authors checked and revised the output and take responsibility for the final manuscript.”

Adapt the statement to the actual use, including research materials where applicable. Editors may request clarification or supporting documentation and assess undisclosed or misleading use under the journal's publication ethics policies.