Gadjah Mada University the Secretariat of Joint Sports, and the Arts Unit is coordinated by the Joint Secretariat of Arts. Sports activities include swimming, diving, inkai karate, kenpō, the Indonesian martial art "pencak silat" (including the variants of "pencak silat merpati putih", "self periasi pencak silat", "pencak silat pro patria", and "pencak silat setia hati terate"), taekwondo, judo, hockey, soccer, softball, volleyball, basketball, athletics, equestrian, bridge, badminton, chess, and tennis. Arts activities include Arts Gaya Yogyakarta (Swagayugama), Art Style Surakarta, Balinese dance, creative dance, photography, Gamma Band, marching band, ‘’keroncong’’, student choir, theatre, and others arts. Other activities include Publisher Student Press Agency,
Silat are now considered generally poor depictions of the art. However, silat became increasingly prominent in Indonesian movies during the 70s, resulting in more professional and authentic depictions of the art in both historical films as well as action movies. Indonesian action stars Ratno Timoer and Advent Bangun were famous for 80s silat films such as "The Devil's Sword" and "Malaikat Bayangan". In Malaysia on the other hand, silat became increasingly rare on-screen during the subsequent decades. After the year 2000, silat was featured to varying degrees of importance in popular Malay movies such as "Jiwa Taiko", "Gong", "KL Gangster", "Pontianak