Publishing its first issue in 1989, Humaniora has maintained a long tradition of contributing to scholarship on the humanities of Indonesia. Intending to increase awareness of Indonesian humanities, signified precisely by the name Humaniora, this journal acknowledges the patent diversity and extent of Indonesian humanities, and their elements, and seeks to encourage work on this infinite range of facets within human diversity. The journal notes that the Humanities is both one significant part of the overall Human Science spectrum, and concomitantly forever shifting, evolving, and merging with other fields, where the humanities is constantly evolving to accommodate a modern Indonesia.
As such, Humaniora calls for work in the humanities, as it pertains to the study of Indonesian culture, and at times, the comparative study of Indonesia with other regions. These studies, and observances, in the form of a concise journal paper, shall develop critical understandings of Indonesia, pertinent to its progressive and concurrently richly diverse humanities.
The emphasis of the journal is manifold: it includes the garnering, analysis, and dissemination of information pertaining to Indonesian humanities, the accurate and thick description of observed and lived humanities of Indonesia, the increase in quality of critique of Indonesian humanities, the strengthening of critical approaches to Indonesian humanities, the forging of interdisciplinary work, and hence new fields of scholarship, within the Indonesian humanities, and the encouraging of innovative methodologies, and evolving permutations of these methodologies, for the investigation of the humanities pertinent to Indonesia.
A timeline of Humaniora, its accreditation, policy changes, and publication improvements can be found below from the newest to the oldest.
2024. After a series of editorial meetings in 2023, Humaniora decided to start publishing a thematic edition in 2024. This edition aims to provide a platform for engaging scholarly discussions on contemporary issues in Indonesia. The journal will continue to be released twice a year, with one regular edition and one themed edition. However, the publication of a thematic edition each year is not guaranteed and will depend on the suitability of proposed themes. A thematic edition consists of a curated collection of at least five research articles, an introduction (editorial), and other types of publications such as book reviews and empirical reports. Submissions for the themed edition should be made through a proposal that outlines the theme and proposed timeline, to be submitted by the Guest Editor. The proposal should also explain why Humaniora is the appropriate venue for this edition. For more details, please visit Call for Proposal Thematic Edition Humaniora. Furthermore, the Guest Editor will not be involved in any external peer review processes as this responsibility lies with Humaniora's editorial team. The Guest Editor will not be informed about the names of the peer reviewers assigned to the articles in this special issue and will not be involved in the editorial decision-making process for any article that they have co-authored, if applicable. Each article published in this special issue will undergo at least one stage of external peer review, similar to the process applied to regular publications by Humaniora.
2024. Recognizing the increasing need for young scholars to publish, Humaniora is introducing a new section called "Empirical Reports," created to support young and junior scholars - including postgraduate students - in their academic publishing. This section focuses more on empirical research rather than deep theoretical discussions, allowing submissions to present data and findings without requiring too much analytical depth. Our goal is to make publishing more accessible and to provide a supportive environment with constructive feedback and mentorship. Through this initiative, we hope to help emerging scholars improve their research and writing skills, and encourage the next generation of researchers.
2024. Beginning in 2024, Humaniora improved the reading visibility of the PDF version by changing the layout from one double columns to single column. It allows reader to have more relaxed reading experiences as the typical of articles in humanities studies are presented in quite long paragraphs.
2022. Following up the reinforcement managed by DOAJ website, Humaniora submited an update request (re-assessment) for DOAJ inclusion. It went well and Humaniora remains in DOAJ until present.
2022. Following up the tightening of its focus and scope, Humaniora reduces the publication frequency to twice a year in 2022. Thus starting from 2022 on, Humaniora becomes biannually journal. The first number is published within the first term while the second number is published within the second term of each respective year. In other words, the first issue will be publishe in the range of January - June, and the second issue will be in the range of July - December of each respective year.
2020. Humaniora successfully retained the national journal accreditation level in SINTA-2 (Science and Technology Index). The validity is up to Volume 37(1), 2025.
2020. In order to emphasize the journal’s place in Indonesian cultural studies, Humaniora tightened its focus and scope, reducing the variety of accepted articles to those focused on Indonesian or Indonesia-related culture.
2018. Humaniora was indexed in Sinta (Science and Technology Index), with a score of S2.
2018. Humaniora was indexed by Asean Citation Index (ACI) until the present.
2017. Humaniora was accredited by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia; this accreditation is valid until 2023.
2016. Humaniora started to fully published in English only. From this point on, authors’ details also include their email address, and starting with the June issue (the Vol. 28. No. 2), article titles are in title case.
2015. Each article in Humaniora was henceforth given a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
2013. Humaniora was included in the DOAJ indexing and later by days, Humaniora got the "Green Tick" mark of the DOAJ.
2012. Humaniora was accredited by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia.
2009. Humaniora was accredited by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia.
2006. Humaniora was accredited by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia.
1989. Humaniora was established.
All Humaniora's documents on its milestones are downloadable through the link; accreditation and indexing docs.
