Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Asian Journal of Sport History & Culture
For a Special Issue on
Indonesian sport in history and society: Cultural legacies, policy transformations, and the road to Indonesia Emas 2045
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Special Issue Editor(s)
Toho Cholik Mutohir,
Universitas Negeri Surabaya
toho.ditjora@gmail.com
Amung Ma'mun,
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
amung@upi.edu
Indonesian sport in history and society: Cultural legacies, policy transformations, and the road to Indonesia Emas 2045
Indonesian sport has played a significant role in shaping national identity, cultural expression, social development, public policy, and Indonesia's engagement with the wider world. Yet scholarship on Indonesian sport remains relatively underrepresented in international sport history and cultural studies. This Special Issue seeks to bring Indonesian experiences into wider international debates on sport, history, culture, society, policy, and development.
The Special Issue is particularly timely as Indonesia approaches 2045, the centenary of national independence, and pursues the national vision of Indonesia Emas 2045. Recent transformations in Indonesian sport policy, including the National Sports Grand Design (Desain Besar Olahraga Nasional, DBON) 2021-2045 and Law No. 11 of 2022 on Sports, provide an important opportunity to examine how sport contributes to national development and how historical legacies continue to shape contemporary sporting institutions and practices.
We welcome original research that examines Indonesian sport from historical, sociological, cultural, political, policy, educational, economic, anthropological, or interdisciplinary perspectives. Contributions may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- Historical foundations and cultural legacies of Indonesian sport, including colonial legacies, postcolonial nation-building, indigenous physical cultures, traditional games, and the development of modern sport.
- Sport, nationalism, diplomacy, and international relations, including the Asian Games, GANEFO, mega-events, nation branding, soft power, ASEAN relations, and Indonesia's changing position in Asian and global sport.
- Sport governance and policy transformation, including DBON 2021-2045, Law No. 11 of 2022 on Sports, institutional reform, policy implementation, financing, stakeholder relations, and central-regional governance.
- Sport and territorial development, including decentralisation, regional inequality, infrastructure, human resources, and differences in sporting opportunities across Indonesia's diverse geographical regions.
- Physical education, physical literacy, and human development, including the contribution of school and community sport to health, character, citizenship, productivity, and the development of Indonesia's 2045 generation.
- Gender, inclusion, and social change, including women's participation and leadership, disability sport, social inclusion, representation, and access to sporting opportunities.
- Traditional sport, martial arts, and cultural heritage, including pencak silat, traditional games, local sporting practices, cultural preservation, standardisation, commercialisation, and internationalisation.
- Elite sport development and sporting performance, including talent identification, athlete development, coaching, sport science, doping, athlete welfare, Olympic and Paralympic pathways, and high-performance systems.
- Sport economy, industry, and tourism, including professional sport, sporting events, sport tourism, entrepreneurship, employment, creative industries, and regional economic development.
- Sport, media, popular culture, and identity, including representations of athletes and sporting communities, digital media, fan cultures, and the construction of Indonesian sporting identities.
- Digital transformation and emerging technologies in sport, including artificial intelligence, data governance, digital inequalities, sport analytics, and technology-supported policy and institutional decision-making.
- Comparative and transnational perspectives, particularly studies that place Indonesian sport in dialogue with other Asian societies or examine the circulation of sporting practices, institutions, people, policies, and ideas across national boundaries.
Comparative and transnational studies are especially encouraged where Indonesia remains central to the analysis. Submissions should connect Indonesian evidence with relevant international scholarship and demonstrate what the Indonesian experience can contribute to broader understandings of sport, history, culture, society, and development.
The Special Issue welcomes original and previously unpublished manuscripts using historical, archival, qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic, policy, comparative, or interdisciplinary approaches.
Submission Instructions
The Special Issue welcomes original and previously unpublished manuscripts examining Indonesian sport in relation to history, culture, society, policy, and development. Papers may adopt historical, sociological, anthropological, cultural, political, educational, economic, policy, or interdisciplinary approaches.
1. Types of Papers Accepted
The Special Issue welcomes the following types of full-length papers:
- Original Research Articles: Papers presenting new findings based on archival materials, interviews, fieldwork, policy documents, textual or media analysis, quantitative data, or other appropriate sources.
- Review and Historiographical Articles: Critical examinations of existing scholarship that identify important debates, research gaps, theoretical developments, or new directions for the study of Indonesian sport.
- Methodological or Source-based Articles: Papers introducing significant historical sources, archival materials, oral-history approaches, digital methods, visual or material evidence, or other methodological developments, provided that they make a clear scholarly argument.
- Comparative and Transnational Studies: Papers comparing Indonesia with other societies or examining the international circulation of sporting practices, institutions, people, policies, and ideas. Indonesia should remain central to the analysis.
All papers should clearly state their aims or research questions, engage with relevant scholarship, explain the methodology or analytical approach adopted, and demonstrate their contribution to knowledge.
2. Word Limits and Authorship
- Articles should be 7,000-8,000 words, including references.
- Manuscripts must be written in English.
- Each article should normally have no more than four authors.
- Submissions must be original and must not be under consideration by another journal.
3. Recommended Structure
The precise structure may vary according to discipline and methodology, but manuscripts should normally include:
- a concise and representative title;
- an abstract explaining the aims, approach, and principal findings;
- an introduction establishing the context, research objective, and significance of the study;
- an explanation of the methodology or analytical approach;
- a clear presentation and discussion of the findings;
- a conclusion addressing the contribution, limitations, implications, and possible directions for further research; and
- complete notes and references.
Authors should use clear and accessible language, explain specialist terms and acronyms, and ensure that references are current and directly relevant to the argument.
4. Formatting Requirements
- Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word.
- Use Times New Roman, 12-point font for the main text.
- Use double line spacing, with 6-point spacing before and after paragraphs.
- Do not indent new paragraphs.
- Text should be left-aligned and should not be fully justified.
- Do not include Word headers or footers.
- Use Microsoft Word's built-in Heading 1 and Heading 2 styles consistently.
- Do not use numbered headings such as 1.1, 1.2, or 1.2.1.
- Subheadings should be italicised.
- Table titles should appear above the table, while figure captions should appear below the figure.
- Tables and figures should be cited in the main text and uploaded as separate files.
- Authors are responsible for obtaining copyright permission for any reproduced figures or other third-party material.
5. Style and References
- Use -ize rather than -ise endings, for example, 'organization' and 'emphasized'.
- Use single quotation marks for quotations, with double quotation marks for a quotation within a quotation.
- Write numbers from one to twelve in words and use numerals for 13 and above.
- Write dates as '23 September 1915'.
- Write decades as '1880s', not '1880's'.
- Write 'twentieth century', not '20th century'.
- References cited in notes should be given in full at the first citation and in abbreviated form thereafter.
- Ibid. should be used only when the citation is identical to the note immediately preceding it.
- References in Indonesian or other Asian languages should include an English translation of the title in brackets.
- Authors are strongly encouraged to consult recently published articles in the Asian Journal of Sport History & Culture for further guidance on the journal's style, content, and referencing practices.
6. Submission through ScholarOne
All manuscripts must be submitted through the Asian Journal of Sport History & Culture ScholarOne submission system.
When submitting the manuscript, authors must select:
'Indonesian sport in history and society: Cultural legacies, policy transformations, and the road to Indonesia Emas 2045'
from the Special Issue title or Special Issue designation menu in ScholarOne. This step is essential to ensure that the manuscript is assigned to the correct Special Issue.
Authors should also follow the Journal's general online submission requirements and prepare their manuscripts for double-anonymised peer review.
All submissions will undergo the Journal's standard editorial assessment and independent double-anonymised peer review. Inclusion in the Special Issue cannot be guaranteed until the manuscript has successfully completed the review process.
7. Timeline
- Final manuscript submission deadline: 31 July 2027
- Peer review and revision: August 2027 - March 2028
- Final acceptance and production: April 2028