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,
Indonesian martial arts resulted in the development of native edged weapons such as the parang, klewang, mandau, badik, kujang, golok and kris. Chinese straight swords arrived early, and ancient Javanese curved swords show Indian derivation. Contact with India and the forming of ancient kingdoms lead to the transition from tribalism to the golden age that was Indonesia's Dharmic civilization. Pencak silat developed in this era, spreading quickly from Sumatra into nearly the whole of the archipelago. In comparison to the country's tribal fighting systems, pencak silat shows decidedly more influence from the Asian mainland, specifically China and the Indian subcontinent. Pencak silat tied