Faculty of Agriculture

Mission

1. Capability of providing an advanced agricultural and fishery education which to apply the developed science and knowledge on productive activity and service on society.
2. Conducting research activity to support development of science and technology on agriculture
   and fishery fields.
3. To apply research and development results for society welfare.

To bring it’s Vission and Mission into realization, The Faculty of Agriculture of Gadjah Mada University conducts it’s basic principles base on the comitment and social responsibility also base on academic freedom in teaching, learning and scientific development also in technology.

Basic ideas in proposing of Faculty of Agriculture Gadjah Mada University are :

1. Globalization in many degrees change the face of living e.g:
   i) the effect of information and global communication have changed
   the flowing of information it self,
   ii) raises of competition among nations,multi-nations, including
   competition among qualified human resources,
   iv) raises issues in justice, human right, democration, and other
   life aspects,
   v) environmentally issues is getting stronger so the economic
   development is now conditioned to put more atention to environment,
   and
   vi) decreasing of National Identity as the effect of
   globalization.
2. Encounter those effects of globalization, higher education are expected to create qualified graduates simultaneously. That will be matched with The World
   Declaration of Higher Education about Higher Education in Twenty-First
   Century Vision and Action (UNESCO, 1999) which mentions that
   education in high quality is a must.
3. In present time, paradigm of development has altered from
   sentralization onto desentralization, from government oriented onto
   people oriented. Thats why skilled and  educated human resources
   whom independently planing and doing agricultural development are
   needed to fulfill the need of farmer,
   ecosystem, socio-economic, and culture in the region.
4. Sustainable agricultural development is a form of a credible
   agriculture which interacts with natural system as the results are
   increase of productivity and agricultural resistance system with health
   secure, integrity and stability maintenance of the natural system it self.
   For all of those purposes an integrated approaching method is needed.

Brief History of The Faculty

The Faculty of Agriculture, Gadjah Mada University was founded in 1946, one year after Indonesia proclaimed its independence on August 17, 1945 in Jakarta. In that moment, the Ministry of Prosperity established 3 agri­cultural higher learning in Klaten (Central Java), Malang (East Java), and Yogyakarta. On September 27, 1946 the Agricultural Higher Learning in Klaten and Agricultural Academy at Yogyakarta was formally established by the Ministry of Prosperity of the Republic of Indonesia.

In December 1948, The Agricultural Higher Learning was closed due to post independence war. Afer re-establishment of new government of the Republic of Indonesia, the higher education as one attribute of the state had also to be re-established, including Faculty of Agriculture. In November 1, 1949 the Faculty of Agriculture was emerged under the institute of higher learning in the campus of Ngasem, located in the side palace of Sultan Yogyakarta. On December 19, 1949 Gadjah Mada University was formally inaugurated and the Faculty of Agriculture to be part of the Faculty of the Gadjah Mada University. The name of the faculty then changed to the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry (1955?1963). On August 17, 1963 the faculty was split into 3 faculties, namely The Faculty of Agriculture, The Faculty of For­estry, and The Faculty of Agricultural Technology.