On Monday, May 27, 2024, the Javanese Language, Literature and Culture Study Program held a field lecture in the framework of the Codicology course. This activity was held at Widyabudaya Library of Keraton Ngayogyakarta and Widyapustaka Library of Pura Pakualaman. The participants of this activity were students participating in the 2024 Kodikology course, guided by Dr. Sri Ratna Saktimulya, M.Hum., as the lecturer of the course.

In this field study, students had the opportunity to see and learn firsthand about manuscripts, archives, and preservation efforts. The first location visited was Widyabudaya of Keraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat. Here, students were first entertained with warm tea drinks typical of the Keraton Yogyakarta. After that, they were divided into four groups and guided by the abdi dalem to observe in depth the collection of manuscripts, archives, and the restoration process.

The second location visited was the Widyapustaka Library of Pura Pakualaman. In this place, the participants were treated to jamu beras kencur and some traditional dishes. After enjoying the meal, the participants were given the opportunity to see the manuscript and archive collections. They also listened to explanations from librarians about the condition, aspects, and preservation of the manuscripts.

The implementation of this field study went well and smoothly. The students were very enthusiastic, as seen from their high curiosity about various manuscript and archive collections, as well as the stages of revitalization. The purpose of this activity is as a preservation event in the form of introducing Indonesian culture, especially Javanese culture, to the younger generation. Thus, it is hoped that the love for the nation’s culture in the younger generation will continue to grow and can be realized in real efforts to keep nguri-uri (preserve) and ngurip-urip (revive) the nation’s identity.

The existence of various manuscripts and archives is a source of historical traces as well as a mirror of the cultural life of their time. Therefore, preserving historical evidence and extracting information from it needs to be done as a step to understanding the form of culture, knowledge, history, and glory of the archipelago. In addition, synergy from various parties is needed to realize this. This is in line with the fourth and seventeenth points of the Sustainable Development Goals, namely presenting and improving the quality of education and cooperation between partners to achieve goals.

The Merdeka Student Exchange Program is an initiative that allows university students to study at universities in Indonesia for one semester. It aims to enhance their learning experience and strengthen unity in diversity. PMM targets to involve 204 recipient universities and accept 15,505 students as participants of this program. One of the universities that received the program is of course Gadjah Mada University. There are many students who have exchanged to this campus and not a few who managed to qualify to study at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences. The students came from various universities from all over Indonesia, and some even came from abroad, namely 2 students from Hankuk University, South Korea.

After almost 6 months of PMM students studying, they will finally be released to return to their respective universities after completing the Final Semester Examination. Therefore, the Faculty of Cultural Sciences took the initiative to organize a farewell event for them. The event was held at Teras Langit Turi on Thursday, June 13, 2024 and was attended by 24 students and a number of lecturers representing each study program. They gathered at 4pm at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences and departed together using the bus that had been prepared for them. After traveling for about half an hour, they arrived at the venue. There they were served various drinks, food, snacks, and heavy meals. While eating the dishes, they were invited to share their respective experiences during college. They captured the moment together before going home.

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen,

informing one of the new programs at FIB UGM: SIBUYA, what’s SIBUYA?

SIBUYA (Sarapan pagi Ilmu BUdaYA), is a free and healthy breakfast program for students of the Faculty of Cultural Sciences UGM during the Final Semester Examination. Save the dates!

(June 19, 21, 24 and 27, 2024*)

Just show your KTM / (Exam card on that day) and enjoy the free breakfast!!!

Don’t run out … Let’s get it….

*Breakfast is available 200 servings every day

Starting at 06.30 until the place in front of Soegondo Building runs out

Hopefully the SIBUYA program is useful and adds to the enthusiasm of FIB students in taking UAS, and hopefully UAS runs smoothly, and we are always given health.

Thank you Mr. Dean and all of you for fasilitasinya

Linguistics study program is one of the master level study programs at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada. The vision of the study program is to become a linguistics study program with superior quality, national insight, active and responsive to language problems and linguistic development, and able to become a reference study program in the Asia Pacific region in 2025. To achieve this vision, one of the missions carried out by the study program is to educate linguistics graduates with a master’s degree who are able to apply the linguistic knowledge they have obtained to solve various social problems and are able to dialogue and partner with foreign scholars in an effort to establish mutually beneficial intercultural cooperation. This is evidenced by the requirement for students to use their respective regional languages when presenting in Psycholinguistics courses.

Psycholinguistics is a field that studies how humans create and use language. Psycholinguistic theory views language as a means of conveying information, focusing on the view that language is the result of human habits. In essence, psycholinguistics seeks to explain how language structures are formed, used and understood in the process of communication. From this focus, a psycholinguistics lecturer at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Drs. Tatang Hariri, M.A., Ph.D., took the initiative to utilize the condition where his students come from various regions to introduce their respective native languages. This aims to be a direct example of how different languages occur and so that local languages are preserved and not lost.