Abstract
Traditional medicine is a form of pharmaceutical ingredient which uses as medicine by the people. In public paradigm, traditional medicines is considering more secure and cheaper compare with patent medicine. The reason of such condition due to traditional medicines are made from materials of plants, animals, mineral galenic ingredients or mix of all those ingredients hereditary. In Indonesia the instrument control of traditional medicine conducted by regulation, license, supervision and legal enforcement. In practical, based on the surveillance result which conducted by BPOM found from 7.605 sample of traditional medicine, 1.867 (24.55%) of those are not fulfilled the standard because several reasons contain chemical ingredients, does not have distribution license, has long wrecked time and has unsuitable water content. This condition resulted due to the lack of ability of traditional medicine business to fulfill the requirement and obligation of license owner to conduct the medicine manufacture base on CPOTB. Keywords: traditional medicine, license, legal enforcement.
Highlights
Health service practices using traditional medicine is very popular among society, this is no other caused by the stigma that marks OT as more safety, with no side effect and less expensive
There are several variables involved to understand the distribution of traditional medicine: fundamental rights of people to get health services include the need of medicines/traditional medicines, it is absolutely needed to meet the requirements of safety, quality and efficacy as a part of National Healthcare System; Social point of view that stigmatize OT is way safer than patent medicines
Traditional medicines are part of pharmaceutical product mostly used by people, this is because traditional medicines (OT) practices are very popular among society and are mainly passed through an interaction within families, among neighborhood and among patients
Summary
Health service practices using traditional medicine (read: OT) is very popular among society, this is no other caused by the stigma that marks OT as more safety, with no side effect and less expensive. These strong beliefs are mainly affected by the fact that OT are made of plants, animals and minerals which are abundant as Indonesia’s natural resources. There is no clear guarantee towards the safety and benefit of many OT products distributed among society It is shown by several circular letter issued by National Agency of Food and Drug Control (BPOM) to warn the society (public warning) towards several OT products, both imported and domestic ones
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