Allegations of Misconduct

Tamumatra: Jurnal Seni Pertunjukan considers concerns about the integrity of submitted and published work, peer review, and editorial conduct. Reports are assessed on their evidence and relevance. An allegation is not a finding of misconduct, and disagreement about an artistic interpretation or teaching approach is not, by itself, evidence of wrongdoing.

Concerns Covered

Concerns may include plagiarism; fabricated or falsified evidence; misleading changes to images, audio, or video; duplicate publication; manipulated peer review; misrepresented authorship; undisclosed conflicts of interest; and serious breaches of consent or permissions. Arts-specific examples include invented interviews or classroom observations, unattributed choreography or music, inaccurate performance documentation, and disclosure of restricted community knowledge.

Editing a performance recording is not automatically misconduct. The issue is whether editing, selection, or presentation misrepresents evidence or conceals information needed to assess the article. Authors should explain consequential alterations and distinguish research documentation from artistic reconstruction or illustration.

Reporting a Concern

Use Contact Us to identify the article or submission, explain the concern, and provide supporting evidence, such as passages, citations, recording timestamps, or documents. Avoid unnecessary personal information about students, workshop participants, performers, or community members. Anonymous reports are considered when they provide sufficiently specific, verifiable evidence.

Assessment and Fair Process

An editor without a relevant conflict of interest assesses whether the report falls within the journal's responsibilities and whether more information is needed. Complaints involving the handling editor are referred, through the journal's contact details, to an uninvolved editorial board member or the publisher. A person whose conduct is under review must not decide the outcome of that complaint.

The journal normally explains the substantive concern to the authors or other person concerned and gives them a reasonable opportunity to respond and provide evidence. Editors may seek independent advice or refer matters requiring formal investigation to the relevant institution or responsible organisation. The journal assesses publication integrity; it cannot replace an institutional investigation or settle every dispute about artistic ownership.

Information is shared only as needed to assess the concern, obtain a response, or communicate with an appropriate investigating body. The journal seeks to protect confidential information and complainants' identities, although absolute confidentiality cannot always be maintained. Participant privacy and culturally sensitive materials require particular care.

Outcomes and Reconsideration

Depending on the evidence, editors may close an unsupported concern, request clarification or revision, pause or reject a submission, publish a correction or expression of concern, or retract an article. Actions affecting published work explain the reason and link to the article. Authors may comment on proposed action, but their refusal to agree does not prevent a justified editorial correction or retraction.

A request for reconsideration should identify new evidence or a specific procedural error and be sent through Contact Us. An uninvolved editor or publisher representative should review a challenge involving the original decision-maker.