Jurnal Kawistara aims to explore elements of Indonesian culture and society by publication of research findings and scientific innovations that are practically relevance for the preservation of local culture, environmental sustainability, social cohesion and community welfare. Jurnal Kawistara seeks to publish a balanced mix of high-quality theoretical or empirical research articles, case studies, review papers, comparative studies, and exploratory papers. In particular, Jurnal Kawistara looks for academic works that show the implication of social studies on practical issues concerning culture, environment, social cohesion and community welfare. Jurnal Kawistara also accepts papers from the discipline of natural science and technical studies that emphasize on social dimension of humanity issues. We invite critical and applied inquiries into wide range of sub-topics including but not limited to the following: 1. Culture (a unique study of performing arts and classical culture, traditional from various regions in Indonesia, and modern cultural arts such as dance, fine arts, and music art also includes the study of Indonesian literature on classical and contemporary literary issues) 2. Religion (Study of comparative religion, study of pluralism and religious diversity in Indonesia) 3. Media (Cultural studies and media, New Media and Contemporary Societies) 4. Gender (Urban Culture, Gender bias, and gender inequality) 5. Public policy (extractive public policies, distributive public policies, and regulative public policies) 6. Development (economic and social development, urban and regional development) 7. Environment (customs, social and environmental, land and natural resource utilization) 8. Disaster (local wisdom and social culture, disaster management, community empowerment, survival and humanity, disaster and social emergency response organizations) 9. Tourism (ecotourism, tourism management, religious tourism, urban tourism, and cultural tourism) Other disciplines (engineering, natural science, arts) that emphasize on their implication on social and humanity issues. All accepted manuscripts will be published both online and in printed forms. The journal publishes three thematic issues per year, namely April, August, and December.