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,
Pencak Silat being used against the Dutch, particularly knives and edged weapons such as the golok, parang, kris and klewang. During the 17th century, the Bugis people of Sulawesi allied with the Dutch colonists to destroy Mangkasara rule over the surrounding area. While this increased Bugis power in the southwest, Dutch rule deprived seafaring merchants like the Bugis of their traditional employment. As a result, these communities increasingly turned to piracy during the 17th-18th centuries. Not only was pencak silat practiced by the pirates, but new styles were created to combat them. During the Dutch colonial era of the 18th and 19th