11.2 Support of arts and heritage
Universities need to show how they are supporting arts and heritage by strengthening and providing access to local cultural and heritage.
Provide public access to buildings and/or monuments or natural heritage landscapes of cultural significance
UGM has granted public access to structures, monuments, and natural heritage landscapes possessing cultural significance. Such accessibility is extended to students, communities, and the broader public through cultural heritage initiatives and educational programs.
Tour de Heritage UGM, a component of Museum UGM, offers free public access to explore selected cultural heritage buildings and landscapes. This initiative aims to raise awareness and promote diverse cultural heritage sites within the campus to the broader public.
Seven UGM buildings, designated as Sleman Regency cultural heritage, exemplify the institution’s commitment to modernity and inclusivity. The UGM Central Building, in particular, incorporates new facilities for individuals with disabilities and elevators to ensure universal accessibility.
“Omah UGM,” overseen by UGM, serves as an educational platform dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage. This initiative encompasses community-centric disaster risk management, craftsmanship, and the safeguarding of cultural heritage, with a specific focus on its location in Kotagede.
Provide public access to libraries including books and publications
UGM library is open to the public. Some materials and facilities can be accessed both free and charged at affordable prices.
The UGM Library extends its services to individuals beyond the UGM community, catering to both the general public and students from diverse regions. Access to UGM Library service facilities is available for non-UGM community members at reasonable fees.
The library provides access to the general public to the collection of theses and dissertations of UGM academics.
The library offers public access to the compilation of theses and dissertations authored by academics affiliated with UGM.
The library provides access to information sources that are open to the academic community and non-academic community.
The library furnishes information and guidelines on citation writing, accessible to all users through the library website. This facilitates a streamlined approach for users in organizing their citation systems.
Publicly accessible information is provided on the utilization of Mendeley as an application designed to assist users in efficiently organizing citations for scholarly writing.
Publicly accessible information is provided on the utilization of Zotero as an application designed to assist users in efficiently organizing reference management software.
Publicly accessible information is provided on the utilization of Anti Plagiarism as an tools designed to identify the plagiarism for scholarly writing.
Internal administration is structured for the collection of visitor identity information.
Library of the Center for Environmental Studies (PSLH), part of the UGM Central Library, which is easily accessible related to environmental studies.
The Center for Cultural Studies offers a library that is accessible to the broader public.
The Tourism Study Center Library is accessible to the public. Special collections available in the library are related to tourism.
The Library at the Tourism Study Center is open to the general public, housing specialized collections specifically curated to encompass topics pertinent to tourism.
IJBiotech is a quarterly open-access journal covering diverse biotechnology fields, such as food and agricultural biotechnology, health, environmental biotechnology, and more. Published by the Biotechnology Research Center in collaboration with Universitas Gadjah Mada’s Graduate School.
Provide public access to museums, exhibition spaces or galleries, or works of art and artefacts
UGM has museums and exhibition spaces that are open to the public both for free and with payments. Some examples are Museum UGM, which functions in preserving and developing the noble values of Universitas Gadjah Mada through the management of its material remains that inspire and empower the community as well as Biology Museum, which functions as education on life sciences. UGM also has Museum of Bioanthropology and Paleoanthropology.
Public access to the Biology Museum
The Faculty of Biology at UGM hosted an educational visit by SDIT Yaa Bunayya to the Biology Museum, aligning with the museum’s role as a facility for the preservation and education of life sciences.
The Yogyakarta Cultural Office organized a Compulsory Museum Visit (WKM) program at the Biology Museum, engaging the public with a theme centered on traditional and cultural values.
The Faculty of Biology welcomed visits from multiple junior high schools as part of the Introduction to School Environment (PLS) activity conducted at the Biology Museum.
The Faculty of Biology hosted SMA N 1 Lingung from Majalengka Regency for an Outdoor Learning activity at the Biology Museum.
The Faculty of Biology hosted an educational visit from Way Serdang High School in Lampung, focusing on the diversity of Indonesian flora and fauna at the Biology Museum.
Student representatives from Ahmad Dahlan University visited the Bioanthropology and Paleoanthropology Museum at the Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada.
UGM’s Archives and Information Records Management Program, in collaboration with BPKSF, the Yogyakarta Culture Office, and the Yogyakarta Regional Library and Archives Office, organized an exhibition on the Philosophical Axis of Yogyakarta.
An event curating artistic, literary, performative, and cinematic works selected for their embodiment of fundamental human values.
Provide free public access to open spaces and green spaces
The UGM campus provides open spaces and green areas that are accessible to the general public. Individuals have the liberty to enter Wisdom Park, as well as external laboratories like Wanagama Forest and Biological Forest, which are open to public access at no cost.
The evolution of UGM into a blue campus and the promotion of sustainable development models are facilitated through the utilization of Wisdom Park.
The incorporation of Trans Gadjah Mada buses, coupled with multiple bus stops, complimentary bicycle services, and the provision of Toyagama as a water fountain, enhances public accessibility to green spaces.
Wanagama Forest Healing, an ecotourism destination, was released by Faculty of Forestry and UGM Academic Hospital.
The UGM Biological Forest conserves endangered plants or species as well as being a habitat for several animal species.
UGM Biological Garden collects plant species from various regions.
The development of the UGM embung serves as a water storage facility, contributing to food security initiatives.
Contribute to local arts, in terms of number of annual public performances of university choirs, theatre groups, orchestras etc. either ad-hoc or as part of an ongoing programme
UGM has proactively involved itself in the preservation of local culture through diverse activities. The university’s commitment to cultural preservation is evident in festivals, university sound ensembles, theater groups, and orchestras, all imbued with rich cultural values.
A charity music concert for humanity by Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing (FK-KMK) UGM collaborates with international musicians.
An event curating artistic, literary, performative, and cinematic works selected for their embodiment of fundamental human values.
A cultural festival organized in synergy with the local government and KKN UGM students.
UGM orchestrated an art festival imbued with cultural nuances.
The UGM Student Choir (PSM UGM) conducted a theatrical concert.
Menoreh Cultural Festival by Faculty of Humanities presents dances involving regional elements.
Deliver projects to record and preserve intangible cultural heritage such as local folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge. This can include the heritage of displaced communities.
UGM has made significant contributions to the organization, documentation, and preservation of cultural heritage. This contribution encompasses active participation from both students and the community, facilitated through a combination of entertainment, games, and educational activities aligned with local cultural norms and customs.
UGM actively endeavors to preserve cultural heritage, notably through initiatives such as the organization of Javanese cultural traditions, exemplified by the event “Rebo Wekasan.” This event was held to revive “Rebo Wekasan” as a moment of preparedness for multi-disaster threats with a touch of Javanese culture.
Sibaya, a Javanese-language educational board game product, was released by the Center for Cultural Studies as an effort to re-approach cultural values.
The Center for Cultural Studies (PSK) Gadjah Mada University has released a Javanese language educational board game product based on Javanese culture, namely Sibaya, which is an abbreviation for Sinau Basa lan Budaya. The making of this board game was motivated by the importance of cultivating character and manners in children through cultural learning. The reason is, that many children have neglected learning culture, especially Javanese, and many children have begun to ignore manners and abandon their own culture. This game was designed as a language and culture learning necessity for elementary school-age children.
The Spice Cosmopolis Team, a means of strengthening the spice route of the archipelago as a world heritage, was released by UGM as a form of reconstruction, revitalization, and innovation towards culture.
Through this forum, it is hoped that it can make a significant contribution to efforts to prepare formal documents for submitting the Spice Route as a world heritage to UNESCO. The archipelago spice route has the opportunity to become a world heritage because it has the resources of knowledge and local wisdom of the archipelago and world heritage recognition as well as providing resilience to Indonesia’s glory.
The PBL SV UGM team collaborates with Stichting Alzheimer Indonesia Nederland and the Minomartani Cultural Center (BBM) to accompany the Cultural Metri Elderly Group as part of the Melody Memory Project (MMP) 2022. The assistance aims to preserve Javanese arts in terms of 7 repertoires of gending soran and 1 repertoire of dance Golek Swinging. Supported by around 20 elderly musicians and 4 young dancers, the art preservation project is a cross-generational collaboration.
The installation of a statue of Craki or herbal medicine maker at Ngasem Market is a form of UGM’s appreciation for herbal medicine craftsmen who are still carrying on their ancestral heritage in the form of herbal drinks. These herbal medicine craftsmen have played an important role in maintaining the health and fitness of the people of the archipelago for hundreds of years and to this day still preserve the traditional culture of drinking herbal medicine.
In commemorating Thursday Pahing, the Faculty of Cultural Sciences at UGM showcases the academic community wearing traditional attire from various regions, emphasizing the preservation of ancestral cultures and values. The appeal for wearing traditional clothing on Thursday Pahing refers to the DIY Governor’s regulation number 87 of 2014 concerning the use of traditional clothing on certain days in DIY. The traditional Thursday Pahing celebration, which falls once every 35 days, is expected to maintain and preserve ancestral culture, as well as the good values contained therein.
11.4 Sustainable practices
Universities need to be active towards more sustainable transportation and housing.
Measure and set targets for more sustainable commuting (walking, cycling or other non- motorized transport, vanpools, carpools, shuttlebus or public transportation, motorcycle, scooter or moped, or electric vehicles)
In an attempt towards sustainability and zero emission campus, UGM has measures and targets set for more sustainable commuting. UGM has had policies put in place regarding transportation guidance as stated in Rector’s Decree Number 911/UNLP/SK/HUKOR/2018 (pg. 8 and pg. 26).
UGM provides environmentally friendly commuting facilities such as free campus bicycles and electric buses whose usage can be tracked and monitored through applications and the web. UGM also increased facilities for electric by increasing the number of electric vehicles (i.e shuttle golf car and shuttle bus) used around the campus.
Undertake actions to promote more sustainable commuting
In an attempt towards sustainability and zero emission campus, UGM has undertaken campaigns for more sustainable commuting. UGM is actively promoting the use of free campus bicycles for its staff and students. Staff is also provided with electric motorcycles. UGM also provides designated pocket parking in each faculty and work unit to reduce/eliminate emissions from motorized vehicles around the campus building area and encourage sustainable commuting. Staff and students can use the electric shuttle vehicles for transportation from the parking areas to their campus buildings. In addition to that, more sidewalks on the UGM campus are covered with a canopy for more comfortable walking. UGM provides more electric bus and electric shuttle around the campus and actively encourage staff and students to take advantage of the facilities.
- Campus Bicycle
- Electric Car
- Trans Gadjah Mada Electric Bus as Environmentally Friendly Mass Transportation
- UGM Electric Bus Starts Operating, Connected to Trans Jogja
- Arjuna Team Hands Over Smoot Electric Motorcycle to Faculty of Engineering UGM
- Parking Spaces
- UGM is Increasingly Comfortable and Cool with a Canopy
- Canopies on Sidewalks Increase Comfort
- Enjoying the Benefits of UGM Green Open Space
Promote or allow telecommuting or remote working for employees as a matter of policy or standard practice, or offer a condensed working week to reduce employee commuting
UGM allows remote working for its employees and promotes telecommuting, as stated in the Rector Decree. This policy was improved by increasing the proportion of blended learning from 20% to 40% in one term of the semester (Rector’s Decree Number 463 Year 2019). In addition, UGM has prepared facilities for remote learning platforms that enable their teaching staff to teach remotely, correspondingly.
- Rector’s Decree Number 825 Year 2018 and Number 463 Year 2019
- Online Learning: UGM Platform and Support
Purposely, during the Covid-19 pandemic, UGM allows employees to do full remote work as clearly stated in the Circular Letter on Covid-19 emergency response.
After the pandemic, some offices continue to promote remote working by recruiting new employees who are willing to work remotely on a WFH (Work From Home) work scheme and meet work targets with an output-based work culture.
Most importantly, the Directorate of Human Resources has announced that employees are permitted to work from home.
Provide affordable housing for employees
UGM provides housing facilities for its employees as regulated in The Rector’s Regulation Number 7 Year 2017 on UGM official residences.
- Rector’s Regulation Number 7 Year 2017
- Workshop and Socialization of UGM Housing for Employee
- UGM Lecturers Can Live in New Flats
UGM also provides affordable housing for its employees through the UGM employee credit program which provides employees with very light credit interest and very easy terms, aimed at the purchase of lands, house construction, and/or renovation.
Provide affordable housing for students
UGM facilitates affordable housing for students (from Rp350.000 or $23/month to Rp650.000 or $42/month) as well as housing scholarships on and outside the campus with certain rules and regulations.
Prioritise pedestrian access on campus
UGM is committed to implementing the Campus Transportation Masterplan Script (pg. 8 and pg. 26) which prioritizes pedestrian access by establishing comfortable pedestrians around campus.
More sidewalks on the UGM campus are covered with a canopy for more comfortable walking.
Work with local authorities to address planning issues and development, including ensuring that local residents are able to access affordable housing
The UGM Center for Regional Planning and Development Studies (PSPPR) collaborates with the Manggarai Regency Public Housing, Settlement Area and Land Service regarding the preparation of the Housing and Settlement Area Development and Development Plan (RP3KP) for the Manggarai Regency Urban Area. The purpose of preparing the RP3KP document for the Manggarai Regency Urban Area is to prepare an operational guideline for carrying out activities in the field of housing and residential areas for the regional government. It is hoped that this guideline can provide housing management policies for residential areas for poor and low-income communities, and can also accommodate existing needs and potential developments in needs in the coming years as a form of anticipating problems.
- Visit of UGM PSPPR Partners: Department of Public Housing, Settlement Areas and Land, Manggarai Regency
- Research Activities: Preparation of Housing and Settlement Area Construction and Development Plans (RP3KP) for Urban Areas in Manggarai Regency
- Field Survey: Preparation of Housing and Settlement Area Development and Development Plans (RP3KP) for Urban Areas in Manggarai Regency
- Research Activities: Exposure to Intermediate Report and FGD 2 Work on Preparing RP3KP for Urban Areas in Manggarai Regency
- Research Activities: Exposure to Final Draft Report and FGD Preparation of RP3KP for Urban Areas of Manggarai Regency
In addition to Manggarai Regency, the UGM Center for Regional Planning and Development Studies (PSPPR) also has a similar collaboration with Merauke Regency
Faculty of Engineering UGM, BP2P Jawa III Director General of Housing, Ministry of PUPR, and Bank BTN are working together to strengthen the implementation of livable housing development in the DI Yogyakarta and Central Java areas. One form of collaboration is the construction of a House Finance Center which can be a consultation facility for the community to obtain information about livable and affordable housing.
In order to further introduce financial literacy and residential property financing to students and the general public, the Faculty of Economics and Business, Gadjah Mada University (FEB UGM) together with PT Sarana Multigriya Finansial (Persero) held a public lecture. Problems that still occur in housing finance in Indonesia include inequality in people’s purchasing power, the demographic transition towards urban areas, and the need for housing to increase so that there is a supply-demand mismatch. Even though there are a number of policy instruments to support Low-Income Communities (MBR) housing, such as Self-Help Housing Stimulant Assistance (BSPS) and Savings-Based Housing Financing Assistance (BP2BT), the available financing schemes are not yet optimal. PT Sarana Multigriya Finansial (Persero) offers housing financing products as an alternative solution for providing decent housing. The first of these is the Housing Financing Liquidity Facility KPR Program (FLPP), which is a banking portion of assistance funds for FLPP Prosperous KPR financing aimed at FLPP KPR disbursing banks. The second is Housing Micro Financing, which is a program that provides access to financing for communities of underprivileged women who want to renovate their house which also functions as their place of business. The third is the House Quality Improvement Program in Slum Areas which distributes funds to people in slum areas to build the houses they own into livable houses.
Build new buildings to sustainable standards
UGM’s commitment to contribute towards a sustainable environment is shown by the establishment of nationally standardized new buildings (following Green Building Council Indonesia standards), such as those in the Faculty of Law which utilizes resource-efficient design features and technologies to reduce its environmental impact and save on operating costs, the Faculty of Biology Building B, Animal Science Learning Center, Integrated Forest Farming Learning Center, Agrotropica Learning Center, and Dental Learning Center.
Build on brownfield sites, where possible
According to Rector’s Decree number 157/UN1.P/KPT/HUKOR/2020 about Technical Guidance for Building Management, UGM regulates the establishment of new buildings, including restricting the use of green open spaces, except for renovating the old ones (pg. 15) or on the top of an old building with the first or second floor instead. Moreover, new buildings should meet other requirements regulated on Rector’s Decree number 911/UN1/P/SK/HUKOR/2018 about UGM Campus Masterplan Guidance on Transportation part E number 1 (pg. 4) about Building Planning.
One of the examples is the establishment of Gelanggang Inovasi dan Kreativitas (began in 2022) which was built on the demolished old Gelanggang Mahasiswa and Purna Budaya buildings.