The Institute of Islamic Studies Muhammadiyah (IAIM) Sinjai held Scientific Article Writing Workshop for Reputable International Journal. The workshop was delivered by Dr. Ir Ramlan M, MPd, the Director of Sains Global Institut Indonesia, located in KH Ahmad Dahlan Hall, IAIM Sinjai on Tuesday (11/10).

The workshop was initiated by the Research and Community Service Institute (LP2M) and Research and Community Service Board (GP2M) in every faculty and Graduate program, and followed by several lecturers of IAIM Sinjai.

As reported, the Head of LP2M, Prima Mytra mentioned the program followed up the Monitoring and Evaluation of non-optimal international publication of IAI Muhammadiyah Sinjai lecturers.

“So it needs to organize an Article Writing Workshop for Reputable International Journal. We hope that this agenda will increase our international publication in the future,” she said.

Besides the scientific article writing workshop, IAI Muhammadiyah Sinjai also organized an Open Journal System (OJS) management workshop followed by GP2M in every faculty to prepare for the journal accreditation process.

As mentioned by Prima, there were three IAIM Sinjai journals accredited by Sinta 5 and 6, including Naskhi journal and Adz Zahab journal that received Sinta 5 accreditation, while Al-Qalam journal earned Sinta 6 accreditation.

“The workshops were expected to elevate the accreditation status for those three journals to become Sinta 2, at least,” the Head of LP2M IAI Muhammadiyah Sinjai hoped.