Promote Various Indonesian Traditional Medicines at the G20 Indonesia Meeting
The G20 2nd Health Minister Meeting (HMM) event was officially opened by the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Budi Gunadi Sadikin in Bali, Thursday (27/10). The 2-day meeting was attended by 190 delegates from G20 member countries and other developed countries such as Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and representatives from several countries representing regions such as ASEAN, Pacific Island Forum, African Union, Caribbean Community, and NEPAD. .
This meeting also presented relevant international organizations such as WHO, World Bank, GAVI, CEPI, Global Fund, OECD.
Indonesia as the host of the meeting did not fail to promote biodiversity which is very abundant and spread throughout Indonesia. One of them is medicinal plants such as turmeric, betel, cardamom, ginger, centella, moringa and others through the exhibition.
Titled Biodiversity Traditional Medicine Indonesia, the exhibition lasted during the 2nd HMM activity until Friday (28/10). This exhibition aims to highlight Indonesian medicinal plants that have long been used as medicine in the form of simplicia, herbal medicine and phytopharmaca.
The diversity of medicinal plants owned by Indonesia certainly needs to be socialized and raised in various international events. The hope is that the global community at least the G20 countries will be exposed to and know the various benefits of medicinal plants that have long been used by the Indonesian people.
This exhibition exposes medicinal plants that have been researched and proven efficacious in traditional medicine. Followed by related units at the Ministry of Health such as the Health Development Policy Agency (BKPK), the Directorate General (DG) of Pharmacy and Medical Devices who appointed Bude Jamu, the Directorate General of Public Health, Data and Information Centers and the Digital Transformation Office (Pusdatin-DTO).
Then there are herbal medicine companies, state-owned enterprises, the private sector and MSMEs engaged in the use of traditional medicinal plants to enliven this event.
Exhibitors include the Bali Industry and Trade Office, PT. Sido Muncul, PT. Indofarma, PT. Biofarma and Kimia Farma Holding Pharmacy and Tirta Ayu Spa, Center for Research and Development of Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicines of Tawangmangu (B2P2TOOT) in addition to being present from other units of the Ministry of Health.
Akhmad Saikhu, Head of B2P2TOOT, said that his institution's participation in this exhibition is to introduce the wealth of medicinal plants to the international world, including the benefits that are expected to be developed in the direction of researching the efficacy of medicinal plants and developing public health.
"The medicinal plants exhibited from B2P2TOOT have properties and benefits," said Akhmad Saikhu. Medicinal plants were packaged as souvenirs and given free of charge to the G20 delegates who attended.
Akhmad Saikhu hopes that G20 countries will be interested and participate in developing medicinal plants native to Indonesia. According to him, there are three groups of medicinal plants, namely herbs, Standardized Herbal Medicines (Scientific Based Herbal Medicine), and Fitofarmaka (Clinical Based Herbal Medicine).
Herbal medicine has been used for generations for thousands of years and has proven its safety and direct benefits for certain health purposes.
Standardized Herbal Medicines are traditional medicines served from extracts or extracts of natural ingredients in the form of medicinal plants, animals, and minerals. The production process is already with advanced technology.
This group has scientific evidence in the form of pre-clinical studies such as the existence of standards for content of nutritious ingredients, standards for making medicinal plant extracts, standards for making hygienic traditional medicines, and acute and chronic toxicity tests.
Then Fitofarmaka is a form of traditional medicine from natural ingredients that can be equated with modern medicine because the manufacturing process has been standardized, supported by scientific evidence up to clinical trials on humans.
Dr. Events Widi Astana as the person in charge of the B2P2TOOT booth said that the collection of medicinal plants displayed was packaged in the form of kokedama, namely medicinal plants that were made into decorations. There are also simplicia which are made into interesting souvenirs.
One of the medicinal plants that are decorated is ules wood. Ules wood is empirically useful for antipyretics and antioxidants.
This news was broadcast by the Bureau of Communications and Public Services, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia.
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