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In Indonesia, the pains suffered by Indonesia's population amounted to 28.15% and of that number was 65.01% of them chose self-medication using drugs and 38.30%, others choose to use traditional medicine, so that Indonesia's population is assumed as many as 220 million people will choose to use traditional medicine as much as approximately 23.7 million people, a number of very large (the census year 2007).
Indonesia is a tropical region has a unique and rich biodiversity that is extraordinary, carrying no less than 30,000 species of medicinal plants that grow in Indonesia. But it turns out there are only 5 products herb medicine fitofarmaka and there are 28 new product standards. This shows that the potential of Indonesia is still not fully explored in the development of herb medicines, particularly herb products which are native to Indonesia.
World of Medicine, Indonesia is slowly starting to open up as an option to receive the herb treatment, not merely as an alternative treatment only. This is evidenced by the establishment of several organizations such as Agency Review of Traditional and Complementary Medicine Doctors Association of Indonesia on IMA Conference XXVII of 2009, Persatuan Dokter Herbal Medik Indonesia [PDHMI], Persatuan Dokter Pengembangan Kesehatan Timur [PDPKT] and several other similar organizations.
This illustrates that although the medical world is still wide open but the perpetrators, namely the doctors began to see great potential and it can be developed in herb medicine-based treatment, not only to treat mild disease, but also to cope with severe disease.
Hopefully the people's dependence on conventional medicine for certain medicine is expected to be replaced by the entry of herb medicine. Today it turns out 95% of conventional medicine is still in the import. How much foreign exchange can be saved if this transition go smoothly?