A company is expected to provide humour recreation for female workers. Tests showed that the combination between humour recreation in the company and outdoors can reduce depression and enhance women's work performance in managing psychosocial stressors. That was explained following a research conducted to some 992 female workers in ...

The Rector of Universitas Gadjah Mada, Prof. Ir. Sudjarwadi, M.Eng., Ph.D, again inaugurated 1,542 graduates of Undergraduate and Diploma programs at Grha Sabha Pramana Auditorium, Thursday (19/11). Until the first period of academic year of 2009/2010, UGM has produced 205,621 graduates consisting of 29,022 in Diploma program, 131,668 in ba ...

The Gelora Bung Karno Senayan Stadium is the site of management rights of No 1/Gelora on behalf of State Secretariat. In its development, the control of the rights is varied, both for commercial or non-commercial use. “In its development, there has been a shift from the initial idea, including its existence and institution,” said Secretary to t ...

Conducive psychological situation in group environment cannot always take place as expected. In such situation, members of the group have the perception that work environment is dynamic, quiet, comfortable, peaceful, trustworthy and warm while there is active interaction among the members, particularly on decision making. A research that ex ...

Mulwa fruit or more often known as the custard-apple or wild sweetsop (Annona reticulata) has started to become difficult to find because there are not plenty of them being planted. Belonging to the Annona genus from the tropics, this plant has a kinship with Soursop (Annona muricata) and sugar apple (Annona squamosa ...

The loss of language means the loss of a social, cultural and spiritual heritage. Up to now, the extinction rate of human language reaches more than 40%. According to Prof. Stephanus Djawanai, M. A, language loss means the erosion or extinction of ideas, which also means the loss of human means to know and gather knowledge. “Language ...

In petroleum industry, the role of zeolite as catalyst is very important. Almost all upgrading and refinery processes use synthetic zeolite as catalyst. Without a catalyst, a reaction will be a million times slower to produce a product. The state-owned petroleum company, PT. Pertamina, with its block in Balongan alone needs as much as 5,000 ...

Faculty of Medicine UGM inaugurated 16 foreign doctors from Malaysia. Dean of the Faculty Prof. Dr. Ali Ghufron Mukti, M.Sc., said that the doctors were those attending the international programme. International programme was established in 2002. So far, only five universities (UGM, University of Indonesia, Padjadjaran University, Hassanudin Univer ...

Today the world is facing many problems. Many countries expect Indonesia to be a partner to look for a solution. UGM as a center of intellectual development in this country has the potential to take part in giving this solution.             In order to solve the problems, UGM participates by advocating the local wisdom. Ma ...

Anthropology road map was actually from Prof. Koentjaraningrat, a maestro of Indonesian anthropology. Prof. Koentjaraningrat had great attention to develop Indonesian anthropology to solve national major problems. According to Prof. Dr. Paschalis Maria Laksono, M.A., the road map is limited to cultural identity issues ...