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Journal Bona Fides and Law is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research articles, conceptual analyses, and case studies on Indonesian law. Guided by the principle of bona fides (good faith), the journal promotes legal scholarship that is honest, rigorous, and oriented toward justice and legal certainty.

Journal Bona Fides and Law gives particular attention to legal issues concerning public governance, labour, land, customary communities, and natural resources in Indonesia's regions. The journal welcomes normative, empirical, socio-legal, and comparative studies within the following fields. Studies examining these fields from international and comparative law perspectives are particularly encouraged.

  1. Business Law: company law, investment, capital markets, banking, bankruptcy, contracts, consumer protection, competition law, and business dispute resolution.
  2. Labour Law: employment relationships, wages, termination of employment, industrial relations disputes, social security, civil service and government contract employees, and platform work.
  3. Administrative Law: government authority, administrative decisions, general principles of good governance, public services, administrative sanctions, and administrative courts.
  4. Regional Government Law: regional autonomy, central–regional relations, regional regulations, village governance, and regional elections.
  5. Customary Law: customary law communities, customary land rights, customary dispute resolution, and the recognition of living law in the national legal system.
  6. Criminal Law: substantive and procedural criminal law, the National Criminal Code, special criminal offences, restorative justice, and law enforcement.
  7. Land Law: land rights, land registration, land acquisition for public interest, agrarian reform, and land disputes.
  8. Environmental and Natural Resources Law: environmental protection, mining and mineral resources, forestry, coastal and marine resources, environmental permits, and environmental law enforcement.