Jurnal Sastra Indonesia is published by the Department of Indonesian Language and Literature, Universitas Negeri Semarang, supported by the Perkumpulan Pengelola Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia serta pengajarnya, three times a year. Jurnal Sastra Indonesia has a focus on:

Research, consisting of scientific reports that increase knowledge about literature in general, the branch of literature, linguistics, and the branch of linguistics. The Indonesian Literature Journal contains articles that report the results of quantitative or qualitative research studies.

Conceptual Ideas, publishing articles that are conceptually relevant to advancing literature in general, literary, linguistic, and linguistic branches, etc. Articles can take advantage of theories / or material developed in literature and linguistics that are studied in depth.