Focus and Scope

The journal focuses on, but is not limited to, the following areas:

1. Performing arts and artistic practices, including music, theatre, dance, and contemporary or collaborative forms, with particular attention to traditional, local, and indigenous cultural contexts, especially in Indonesia;
2. Media, documentation, and recording studies, encompassing photography, film, television, and digital audio-visual media;
3. Anthropology and sociology of art, examining artistic practices within their cultural, social, historical, and ritual contexts;
4. Fine arts and design studies, including painting, sculpture, craft, visual communication design, interior design, product design, transmedia art, batik, and fashion.

Panggung encourages contributions that engage with Indonesian and Southeast Asian arts while offering comparative, theoretical, and global perspectives relevant to contemporary art and cultural studies.