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Indonesian Journal of Language, Space, and Visual Arts
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Indonesian Journal of Language, Space, and Visual Arts is a double blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes original research articles and critical studies at the intersection of language, spatial practices, and visual arts. This journal is published quarterly as a platform for the dissemination of theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary findings that address a broad range of topics, including but not limited to linguistics and semiotics of space, visual communication and multimodality, language and place-making, visual discourse analysis, spatial narratives, visual culture, art-based research, media and visual studies, and language-centered approaches to spatial and visual phenomena.
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From sacred landscape to visual commodity: the platformization of cultural space in Indonesian tourism media Umma Fathimah Sabilah Faradis
Indonesian Journal of Language, Space, and Visual Arts Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Contested spaces, algorithmic visualities, and public memory in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijls.v1i2.898

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Background: The increasing dependence of tourism promotion on digital platforms has transformed how sacred and culturally significant landscapes are represented, circulated, and consumed within contemporary tourism communication. Objective: This study examines how Indonesian tourism media platformize cultural space and reconfigure sacred landscapes into visually consumable tourism commodities. Method: This study employs a qualitative corpus-based multimodal design using official tourism and heritage communication materials, combining platformization mapping, sacred-to-commodity framing analysis, and multimodal-spatial analysis. Results: Findings indicate that cultural landscapes are systematically organized through platform visibility mechanisms that prioritize discoverability, visual attractiveness, and destination branding. Findings further reveal that sacred and heritage meanings are not removed but selectively rearticulated through experience-oriented narratives emphasizing immersion, accessibility, and tourism engagement. Findings also demonstrate that multimodal resources, including visual framing, spatial composition, symbolic imagery, and textual narratives, construct a tourist gaze that privileges scenic appreciation and destination recognition while maintaining limited references to ritual and cultural significance. Implication: The novelty of this study lies in integrating cultural landscape theory, tourism imaginaries, and platformization perspectives within a unified analytical framework that explains how sacred space is transformed through digital tourism media. Novelty: This study contributes to tourism communication, heritage studies, and multimodal discourse research by advancing a platform-oriented understanding of cultural representation in contemporary tourism environments.
Erasing the past, redesigning the nation: toponymic change, heritage signage, and contested memory in Indonesian public space Eka Fitri Hastuti
Indonesian Journal of Language, Space, and Visual Arts Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Contested spaces, algorithmic visualities, and public memory in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijls.v1i2.899

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Background: Public space has increasingly become a strategic arena where historical narratives, cultural identities, and political authority are negotiated through spatial symbols, commemorative practices, and heritage representation. Objective: This study investigates how toponymic change and heritage signage participate in the production, reinterpretation, and contestation of collective memory within Indonesian public space. Method: This study employs a qualitative corpus-based design integrating critical toponymy, multimodal heritage signage analysis, and memory politics, drawing on official naming documents, heritage signage materials, visual identity artefacts, policy texts, and contextual reports. Results: Findings indicate that commemorative renaming primarily functions as a mechanism for re-inscribing nationally preferred historical narratives into everyday spatial environments. Heritage signage further reinforces these narratives through multimodal combinations of language, visual symbolism, institutional branding, and spatial design that shape public interpretation of the past. Implication: At the same time, memory is not simply preserved or erased; rather, public space emerges as a site where historical meanings are selectively amplified, reinterpreted, and negotiated across competing scales of identity and heritage. Novelty: The novelty of this study lies in integrating critical toponymy, multimodal heritage signage, and memory politics into a unified analytical framework that explains how spatial naming and visual heritage infrastructures jointly contribute to the redesign of national historical consciousness.
Reading the vernacular city: shop signs, street typography, and the semiotics of everyday urban life in Indonesia Nor Mohammad Abdoeh
Indonesian Journal of Language, Space, and Visual Arts Vol. 1 No. 3 (2026): Vernacular spaces, visual cultures, and everyday semiotics in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijls.v1i3.1015

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Background: Indonesian urban streets are increasingly shaped by shop signs, banners, food-stall boards, façade lettering, and street typography that make everyday commercial life publicly visible while mediating language hierarchy, material improvisation, and spatial belonging. Objective: This study examines how vernacular shop signs and street typography construct semiotic meanings in Indonesian urban space through language choice, typographic form, material surface, and emplacement. Method: This study applies a qualitative multimodal linguistic landscape design, integrating geosemiotic emplacement analysis, multimodal typography and materiality audit, and linguistic hierarchy and identity coding on a corpus of publicly accessible visual, secondary, and contextual materials. Results: Fixed shopfront naming emerged as the most visible form of urban commercial identification, showing how façade-based signs stabilize trust, address, and business recognizability. Flexible banners and temporary displays indicated a different logic of visibility, shaped by affordability, mobility, and everyday commercial adaptation. Indonesian and locally recognizable expressions remained central to routine commercial address, while English appeared selectively in service, tourism, and orientation contexts. Implication: These findings show that vernacular signage functions as everyday infrastructure for reading Indonesian urban life, not merely as decoration or branding. Novelty: This study foregrounds street typography and material emplacement as core variables in Indonesian linguistic landscape research
Making home visible: language, memory, and spatial belonging in Indonesian domestic visual cultures Budhi Santoso
Indonesian Journal of Language, Space, and Visual Arts Vol. 1 No. 3 (2026): Vernacular spaces, visual cultures, and everyday semiotics in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijls.v1i3.1016

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Background: Indonesian domestic visual culture remains underexamined within linguistic-landscape and spatial-visual scholarship, although homes, thresholds, interiors, objects, and mediated household images function as crucial sites where language, memory, identity, and belonging become publicly readable. Objective: This study examines how Indonesian domestic spaces make home visible through linguistic signs, vernacular forms, memory-bearing objects, spatial arrangements, and mediated practices of homemaking. Method: This study uses qualitative multimodal discourse analysis, linguistic-landscape interpretation, and spatial-semiotic reading of twenty-two publicly verifiable domestic visual units drawn from official tourism pages, cultural-heritage records, and peer-reviewed academic sources. Results: Domestic visibility is most strongly organized through vernacular and heritage house forms, including named typologies, roof structures, facade orders, and culturally coded spatial sequences. Memory and belonging appear through ancestral houses, ritual spaces, gendered domestic labour, adaptive kinship, work-care routines, digital homemaking, and psychological attachment. Spatial belonging is negotiated through thresholds that connect private dwelling with tourism, heritage governance, public representation, and mediated circulation. Implication: This study shows that Indonesian homes should be read not as static private containers but as layered semiotic environments where cultural continuity and social transformation are visibly arranged. Novelty: This study extends linguistic-landscape inquiry inward by integrating domesticity studies, visual semiotics, and spatial belonging within one Indonesian corpus-based framework
Semiotics of informal economies: food carts, market signs, and visual communication in Indonesian urban margins Wulan Kurnia Sari
Indonesian Journal of Language, Space, and Visual Arts Vol. 1 No. 3 (2026): Vernacular spaces, visual cultures, and everyday semiotics in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijls.v1i3.1017

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Background: Informal food economies in Indonesian urban margins depend on visible, portable, and locally intelligible signs, yet food carts, handwritten menus, price boards, tarpaulin banners, and market displays remain underexamined within linguistic landscape and geosemiotic studies. Objective: This study examines how informal food signage constructs commercial visibility, trust, locality, and spatial legitimacy through multimodal visual communication. Method: This study applies qualitative multimodal semiotic and geosemiotic analysis to 20 publicly accessible primary visual items, supported by six scholarly sources and four contextual regulatory documents. Results: Roadside and market-corridor emplacement dominates the corpus, indicating that informal food signs gain meaning through spatial exposure, pedestrian circulation, and customer-facing placement. Commercial readability is organized mainly through recognizable food names, regional references, cart surfaces, and visible vending objects rather than through corporate-style branding. Trust and belonging are produced through ordinary food categories, locality markers, and public-facing vending forms, while digital-payment visibility appears as a limited but significant marker of transactional credibility. Implication: This study shows that informal signage is not visual disorder but a vernacular infrastructure of economic survival and urban communication. Novelty: This study advances Indonesian linguistic landscape research by centering mobile, low-cost, and precarious food signage as a key site of semiotic invention in urban margins.
Performing locality through design: vernacular typography and the visual politics of Indonesian regional identity M. Rifa Jamaludin Nasir
Indonesian Journal of Language, Space, and Visual Arts Vol. 1 No. 3 (2026): Vernacular spaces, visual cultures, and everyday semiotics in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijls.v1i3.1018

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Background: Indonesian regional identity is increasingly mediated through vernacular typography across tourism branding, heritage signage, vendor lettering, packaging, murals, and public visual systems, yet typography is still often treated as ornament rather than as a political medium of spatial visibility. Objective: This study examines how vernacular typography performs locality, organizes regional legibility, and negotiates heritage, commerce, institutional authority, and everyday visual practice in Indonesian public and semi-public design contexts. Method: This study applies qualitative multimodal content analysis, visual semiotics, and linguistic landscape analysis to 17 publicly verifiable typographic artifacts drawn from official sources, scholarly documentation, tourism communication, cultural signage, market lettering, craft-based type design, and regional visual identity materials. Results: First, standardized visual identity systems appear as this most frequent pattern, showing how locality is increasingly stabilized through logos, guidelines, packaging systems, and typographic rules. Second, spatial visibility is distributed between institutional authority and market or platform circulation, indicating that regional identity is produced through both official and everyday channels. Third, mediation occurs mainly through institutional branding and heritage memory, revealing typography as both cultural preservation and commodifiable identity code. Implication: This study demonstrates that vernacular typography functions as a semiotic infrastructure through which Indonesian locality becomes visible, mobile, and politically negotiated. Novelty: This study advances vernacular typography research by integrating typographic form, spatial authority, and regional identity mediation within one analytical framework.
Sacred words in secular spaces: calligraphy, ornament, and the negotiation of religious visibility in Indonesia Noval Maliki
Indonesian Journal of Language, Space, and Visual Arts Vol. 1 No. 3 (2026): Vernacular spaces, visual cultures, and everyday semiotics in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijls.v1i3.1019

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Background: Sacred words increasingly appear beyond explicitly religious architecture in Indonesia, where Arabic calligraphy and Islamic ornament circulate across homes, textiles, heritage sites, commercial interiors, and digital design environments. Objective: This study examines how sacred script negotiates religious visibility in secular and semi-secular Indonesian spaces through spatial placement, material translation, and social framing. Method: This study employs qualitative multimodal corpus analysis of 31 verified public, scholarly, and contextual items, coded through spatial visibility analysis, ornament-material semiotic coding, and a religious visibility negotiation matrix. Results: Sacred architectural settings remain important anchors of devotional meaning, but calligraphy also moves into domestic, textile, commercial, heritage, and hybrid cultural spaces. Its material transformation shows that sacred words become socially mobile when translated into architectural surfaces, batik motifs, framed décor, craft objects, and digital-commercial graphics. Its visibility is negotiated through devotional anchoring, heritage-cultural legitimation, aesthetic domestication, commercial commodification, intercultural mediation, and ambiguous public display. Implication: These findings indicate that religious visibility in Indonesia is produced through design-mediated accommodation rather than simple opposition between sacred and secular space. Novelty: This study contributes a multimodal account of calligraphy as negotiated visual infrastructure that connects Islamic aesthetics, linguistic landscapes, material culture, and secular-facing public space.
Visual piety in public space: Islamic aesthetics, moral messaging, and spatial authority in Indonesian streetscapes Devita Septian Dwi Hidayati
Indonesian Journal of Language, Space, and Visual Arts Vol. 1 No. 3 (2026): Vernacular spaces, visual cultures, and everyday semiotics in Indonesia
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijls.v1i3.1063

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Background: Indonesian streetscapes increasingly display Islamic calligraphy, Ramadan banners, halal-oriented signs, sacred symbols, and public moral warnings, yet these visual forms remain insufficiently examined as spatial practices through which piety, authority, and belonging become publicly legible. Objective: This study investigates how Islamic aesthetics, moral messaging, and spatial authority are constructed through visual-textual signs in Indonesian public streetscapes. Method: This study applies qualitative multimodal discourse analysis, linguistic landscape analysis, and geosemiotic coding to a 40-item corpus, with closer analysis of 18 primary visual-text items from publicly verifiable institutional and media sources. Results: Islamic public aesthetics appear mainly through processional Ramadan visibility, regulatory banners, sacred lettering, seasonal greetings, symbolic objects, and civic-religious event branding. Moral messaging operates through invitation, prohibition, remembrance, welcome, symbolic evocation, and civic celebration, showing that public piety is both affective and disciplinary. Spatial authority is produced through layered communal, police, religious-textual, governmental, symbolic, and civic-event voices rather than through a single institutional source. Implication: These findings show that Indonesian streetscapes function as negotiated moral-visual environments where ordinary public space is temporarily and materially reorganized by religious signs. Novelty: This study advances visual piety research by integrating multimodal-geosemiotic mapping, moral-message typology, and spatial-authority analysis within Indonesian linguistic landscape scholarship.

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