Jurnal Penelitian Fisika dan Aplikasinya (JPFA) is available for free (open access) to all readers. The articles in JPFA include developments and researches in Physics Education, Classical Physics, and Modern Physics (theoretical studies, experiments, and its applications), with a particular emphasis on the Indonesian context and global perspective, including:

• Physics Education
• Innovation of Physics Learning
• Assessment and Evaluation in Physics
• Media of Physics
• Conception and Misconceptions in Physics
• Physics Philosophy and Curriculum
• Psychology in Physics Education
• Instrumentation Physics and Measurement
• Sensor System
• Control System
• Biomedical Engineering
• Nuclear Instrumentation
• Materials Science
• Synthesis and Characteristic Techniques
• Advanced Materials
• Low Temperature Physics
• Exotic Material
• Theoretical and Computational Physics
• High Energy Physics
• Gravitation and Cosmology
• Astrophysics
• Nuclear and Particle Phenomenology
• Computational and Non-Linear Physics
• Earth Sciences
• Geophysics
• Astronomy

JPFA also carries a Comments and Criticism section, a forum for expressing different viewpoints, comments, clarification, correction of misunderstanding, and reporting research misconduct regarding topics in published papers. Readers of the journal are earnestly invited to contribute their ideas to this forum. Contributions for the Comments and Criticism section should be relatively brief, normally one to four manuscript pages, written in Indonesian and English, and will be published as rapidly as possible.