Journal History
2006 -- Jurnal Komunikasi was first published in 2006. The editors were Iwan Awaluddin Yusuf (chief) and Muzayin Nazaruddin (secretary). We had Amir Effendi Siregar, MA (Universitas Islam Indonesia); Hermin Indah Wahyuni, PhD (Universitas Gadjah Mada); DR. Heddy Pujo Santoso (Universitas Diponegoro); DR. Dedi N Hidayat (Universitas Indonesia); and Henry Subiyakto, MA (Universitas Airlangga) as our Editorial Board and Expert. Topari, Zarkoni, and Ariyanto contributed to the circulation and distribution team.
2010 -- We thank to Mr. Topari who contributed to our circulation and distribution team. This year we congratulate Mr Topari who gain a new position in another school.
2011 -- We welcome Mr. Marjito Tri Gunawan who contributed to our circulation and distribution team and Mr. Zarkoni who became our production team. We also congratulate Mr. Ariyanto who gain a new position at our faculty. This year (October 2011) we also redesigned our interface. When the colour of the cover was changing every published, then since October 2011 we make our consistent colour every publication. We have chosen red as our new brand guidelines since now.
2012 -- In 2012, Mr. Narayana Mahendra Prastya became our new journal secretary and editor at large. We thank Mr. Muzayin Nazaruddin, who has contributed to our journal as secretary for several years, since its first edition.
2013-- We had Mr. Muzayin Nazaruddin as our new Editor-in-Chief and Mr. Narayana Mahendra as our secretary. Thanks to Mr. Iwan Awaluddin Yusuf who had contributed as our chief from the first edition.
2014 -- We had Mr. Narayana Mahendra Prastra as our new Editor-in-Chief and Mr. Muzayin as our Secretary.
2015 -- We welcome Ms Sari Cahya Masita to enrich our circulation and distribution team. We welcome Ms Sumekar Tanjung as secretary.
2016 -- We welcome Mr. Puji Rianto as our Editor in Chief and Mr Holy Rafika Dhona as secretary. Thanks to Mr. Narayana Mahendra Prastya for contributing as our chief from 2014 to 2016.
2017-2019 -- We began digitizing all earlier printed journal editions and obtained our first DOI this year. We have also been using the Open Journal System (OJS) online since this period.
2018 -- We achieve our certification as a journal ranked SINTA 4 by the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia. The SINTA 4 rank was accredited from the edition Vol. 10, No. 2, Tahun 2016, until Vol. 15, No. 1, Tahun 2020.
2020-2022 -- We welcome Mr. Puji Rianto as our Editor in Chief and Ms Sumekar Tanjung as our new Managing Editor. We thank Mr. Holy, the former managing chief, who initiated the migration of this journal online and its use of the OJS platform for the first time in Indonesia. We also welcome our new editors: Dr Subhan Afifi, Dr. Zulfiah Larisu, Gilang Desti Parahita, MA, Dr. Liliek B. Wiratmo, Dr. Rer. Soc. Masduki, Dr. Basuki Agus Suparno. We also welcome Mr. Pambudi Wicaksono as our Journal Administrator and secretary. Pambudi Wicaksono, As'ad Royan, and Erdina Trisna have reorganized the new discipline of the OJS system online and have undergone a total online migration. Mr Puji Rianto, Sumekar Tanjung, and Pambudi Wicaksono declared a brand new tradition of journal system consisting of (1) OJS-based journal, (2) double-blind review, (3) similarity check to control plagiarism, (4) the usage of Mendeley reference manager, and (5) high standard publication ethics.
2020 -- We gain our certification as a journal ranked for SINTA 2 from the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia. The SINTA 2 rank accredited from the edition Vol 14 No 2 Tahun 2020 until Vol 19 No 1 Tahun 2025.
2020 -- Jurnal Komunikasi goes to rebranding. Logos are still, but the interface of the covers is designed with new brand colours, such as a combination of orange, brown, and red as our core colour. The rebranding also makes some changes to the Style Sheet. We make a lot of changes to improve the quality of journal editing. The improvisation on this edition is: (1) making article info for recording the article history, (2) redesigning the layout of the article.
2021-2022-- We introduce our new features such as (1) Crossmark symbol at the manuscript, (2) Orcid ID for the author and article, (3) system migration from the OJS 2 to the OJS 3 version which gives us a better quality of indexing and interface, (4) we also receive more English manuscript.
2023- We welcome our new editors: Ratna Noviani, Ph.D and Dr. Hapsari Dwiningtyas Sulistyani. We also welcome Dr. Subhan Afifi as our new managing editor and thank Ms Sumekar Tanjung, who accompanied us to gain the SINTA 2 journal rank.
2024-2025 - We welcome our new editors, who come from various universities and countries, collaborating on research, teaching, and journal publications. We welcome Prof. Dr. Ana Nadhya Abrar, M.E.S., (Department of Communication Science, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia), Prof. Dr. Hamedi Mohd Adnan, (Department of Media and Communication Studies, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia), Prof. Dr. Kamaljeet Kaur, (Department of Media Studies, Chandigarh University, India), Prof. Yen-Hung Lo., Ph.D, (Department of Advertising, College of Journalism and Communication, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan), Dr. Ousmane Koffi Abdoulaye, (University of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa), Dr. Adzira Binti Husain (Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia), Dr. Irwansyah, M.A. (Department of Communication, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia), Dr. Rustono Farady Marta, S.Sos., M.Med.Kom., (Department of Communication Science, Universitas Satya Negara Indonesia, Indonesia.)
End of 2024-2025-We introduces some new changes to our journal interface and doing some consistent quality improved including (1) we use information cover before first page every article to service and help our readers catch up with the edition and easly to cite our journal, (2) we are deposited our articles to 'crossmark-crossref' based on our crossmark policy to facilitate the updating, and tracking of content changes or updates to every articles (including retraction, revision, etc), (3) we change and add more specific requirement in the editorial policies about our focus and scope.