The Faculty of Psychology at Universitas Gadjah Mada, through the Center for Indigenous and Cultural Psychology (CICP), organized an Internal Workshop: Youth Studies, Livelihood, Relational Wellbeing, and Scoping Review on September 10–12, 2025, at ARTOTEL Yogyakarta. This activity is part of the U’Good Grant Program: Vulnerable Youth – Navigating Meaningful Livelihood in Indonesia, an international research initiative that aims to explore social relations, community support, and the role of institutions in helping vulnerable youth achieve meaningful livelihoods. The UGood Grant Program is supported by the National Research Foundation (South Africa), Fondation Botnar (Switzerland), and the Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa).

A proud achievement comes from the Faculty of Psychology at Universitas Gadjah Mada. The book Tazkiya Therapy in Islamic Psychoteraphy by Dr. Bagus Riyono, M.A., Psikolog, originally published by the renowned international publisher Routledge, has now been officially released in Russian. This work, born from the thoughts of an Indonesian academic, is a testament that local ideas can be appreciated and recognized on the global stage.

The Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), successfully held the Young Alumni Gathering “Pulang: Psikologi Muda Kolaborasi Antar Angkatan” on Friday (Sept 5) at Taman Cinta, Faculty of Psychology UGM. The event brought together alumni from the 2010 to 2021 cohorts under the theme “Returning Home: Remembering the Past, Creating the Future.” read more

The final event of AAI – Strengthening Higher Education System in Indonesia, an afternoon tea reception in the Governor House with Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Margaret Gardner AC.

In August 2025, we joined 27 fellow academics from universities across Indonesia in a short course on Strengthening the Higher Education System in Indonesia (SHESI), delivered through the Australia Awards Indonesia program. The Crawford School of Public Policy hosted the course at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, and gave us the opportunity to engage with policymakers and universities.

Yogyakarta, August 25, 2025 – Not all respondents complete questionnaires seriously as expected by researchers. Some provide answers that appear random or careless. Various statistical methods are available to detect such response patterns. Respondents identified through these statistics as giving careless responses are referred to as misfit persons or aberrant individuals. From a psychometric perspective, what should be done with this kind of response data?

Sheilla Varadhila Peristianto, M.Psi., Psikolog, successfully earned her doctoral degree at the open defense of the Doctoral Program in Psychology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, on Tuesday (19/08). Her dissertation, titled “The Concept of Rasa Rumangsa and Its Relation to the Subjective Burden of Families Caring for Individuals with Schizophrenia”, marked her as the 6,672nd doctoral graduate of UGM.

The Faculty of Psychology UGM and TVRI Yogyakarta are once again presenting OPSI: Obrolan Psikologi (Psychology Talks) with its tenth episode, airing on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, from 3:00 to 4:00 PM WIB. This episode carries the theme “Game Over: The Psychology Behind Video Games.” One of the goals of this episode is to explore in depth the psychological aspects of video games—when games can be beneficial and when they can turn into a dangerous boomerang.

Dr. Bagus Riyono, M.A., Psikolog, faculty member at the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), has once again received an international invitation. After his book Tazkiya Therapy in Islamic Psychotherapy was published by Routledge, the work has now become a subject of discussion in the Islamic Spirituality class at Respect Graduate School, Pennsylvania, United States. read more

The Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), held the Cross-Cultural Understanding (CCU) program on August 13–14, 2025, to welcome 23 exchange students from nine countries. This activity is part of the Student Mobility program designed to support the academic and social adaptation of international students during their one-semester stay at UGM.

Yogyakarta, 14 August 2025 – A research team from the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) has once again drawn attention from the global academic community through a bibliometric study mapping global trends in EEG-based (electroencephalography) hypnosis research. The study highlights how hypnosis is increasingly understood as a measurable neurophysiological process.

Published in the prestigious American Journal of Psychology, the research was authored by doctoral student in Psychology, Martaria Rizky Rinaldi, with the supervision team consisting of Dr. Nida Ul Hasanat, M.Si., Prof. Kwartarini Wahyu Yuniarti, M.Med.Sc., Ph.D., and in collaboration with Prof. Gilles van Luijtelaar from the Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The team conducted a bibliometric analysis of 135 international Scopus-indexed publications as of 24 January 2025. Using VOSviewer, they identified research trends, leading authors and institutions, country contributions, and keyword networks related to EEG-based hypnosis studies.