Jurnal Pelita Raya

Published online on 5 December 2025 as part of the regular December 2025 edition, this issue comprises five original, peer-reviewed research articles that foreground the scholarly contributions of twenty-three academics affiliated with twenty-three higher education institutions across ten countries, thereby exemplifying the principles of academic internationalisation and the value of comparative knowledge production. The contributing institutions encompass Universitas Tabanan, Sakarya University, Southwest University, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri, National Dong Hwa University, Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities, Universitas Airlangga, Universitas Bung Karno, Istanbul Ticaret University, the University of Bucharest, Yalova University, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah, Islamic University of Madinah, Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji, Universitas Mohammad Natsir, Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Al-Azhar University, Bahçeşehir University, and University of Turin. Collectively, the authors contribute a rich synthesis of disciplinary expertise, methodological pluralism, and culturally situated perspectives drawn from Indonesia, Türkiye, China, Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Egypt, and Italy, furnishing readers with an authentically international vantage point that both consolidates and advances ongoing scholarly debates while simultaneously catalysing new trajectories for critical enquiry and sustained collaborative research.