MEDICINAL PLANTS IN

INDONESIA

JANNATI AULAH
2020422002
 INTRODUCTION
• Medicinal plants are plants used with the intention health maintenance, to be administered
1 for some specific conditions, or both, whether in traditional medicine or in modern
medicine (Ahn, 2017; Smith-Hall et al., 2012).
• Medicinal plants are used widely in non-industrialized societies and developing countries in Africa,
Asia, and Southern America, mainly because they are thought to be very effective, cheaper than
modern medicines, and readily available.

• Indonesia is known as a country with very high biodiversity, within which are potential medicinal
2 plants that have not been fully explored or utilized.
• Medicinal plants used long ago until now in Indonesia.
• Indonesia has the opportunity to develop secondary metabolites for the pharmaceutical industry.

• to see the potential for diversity of medicinal plants in Indonesia ( Indonesia has a great opportunity
to produce medicinal plant resources).
3 • BPOM has determined many medicinal plants for drug development research.
• Many studies in Indonesia aim to determine the diversity of medicinal plants in various regions in
Indonesia
• This time, I will present the diversity of medicinal plants in Central Java and the ethnic Mamuju in
West Sulawesi, Indonesia.
 Purpose
Concern loss natural resource

Concerns about the loss of natural resources,

especially medicinal plants and traditional
knowledge, have not been studied.
Technology advances

Technology advances fast and complex, so there are many

ways to conduct research on the natural resources of
medicinal plants in Indonesia.
Update data regularly

This is to determine if there is damage or decline

in natural resources Assessment of Medicinal

there is a need for increased

support for the assessment
of medicinal plants that are
grow in different areas of
Indonesia & to share this
information with the public.

Indonesia Medicinal
Plants (BPOM)
• BPOM has determined 9 • Indonesian Food and
medicinal plants for drug
development research.
RESULT
CENTRAL JAVA Ethnic Mamuju in
West Sulawesi
• There are 30 species of
Drug Administration, medicinal plants used as
found 13 species only sources of traditional
found to have been medicine by the Mamuju
cultivated intensively by ethnic group.
the Indonesian people (in
Central Java).
 DISCUSSION

Medicinal plants are plants commonly found

growing easily around the community.

So that the existence of ethnobotany knowledge

makes people use these plants and have
characteristics. the activity occurs continuously so
that it becomes a belief

Advances in technology and research have further

confirmed that there are plants that have the
potential to become herbal plants (to cure) several
diseases.

such as for fever, flu, protects from obesity due to a

high-fat diet, colesterol, carminative and stimulant,
to increase appetite, pharmacological activities such
as immunomodulators and antimicrobials
 DISCUSSION

There are several different types of medicinal plants

found in Central Java and West Sulawesi

This is due to the influence of temperature, climate,

soil structure, the height of an area and the needs of
the surrounding community for medicinal plants to
be used as herbal medicine.

And some plants have a dual function, apart from

being herbal medicine they are also used for daily
needs such as cooking ingredients (ginger and
turmeric), as well as fruit consumption (guava and
cheese fruit)
 DISCUSSION

BPOM; 9

West Sulawesi; 30 Central Java; 13

Diagram 1. Number of medicinal plants studied

and found in Central Java, West Sulawesi and
from the Indonesian Food and Drug Administration
 DISCUSSION
13 species were found have been intensively
cultivated by the Indonesian people that are:
• Ginger (Zingiber officinale )
• Galangal
• Lesser galangal
• Turmeric (Curcuma domestica )
• Bitter ginger
• Javanese turmeric (Curcuma xanthorrhiza )
• Pink and blue ginger
• Black Face General
• Sweet grass
• Cardamom
• Fingerroot
• Cheese fruit (Morinda citrifolia )
• King of bitters (Andrographis paniculata Ness)

The BPOM set 9 selected Indonesian medicinal plants

namely
• Piper retrofractum Vahl
• Andrographis paniculata Ness
• Curcuma xanthorrhiza
• Psidium guajava L
• Syzigium polyanthi
• Morinda citrifolia
• Guazuma ulmifolia Lamk
Plants used for medicinal purposes by the • Zingiber officinale
ethnic Mamuju • Curcuma domestica
 DISCUSSION

BPOM CENTRAL JAVA ETHNIC MAMUJU

Curcuma domestica Curcuma domestica Curcuma domestica
Psidium guajava L - Psidium guajava L
Zingiber officinale Zingiber officinale -
Curcuma xanthorrhiza Curcuma xanthorrhiza -
Morinda citrifolia Morinda citrifolia
Andrographis paniculata Ness Andrographis paniculata Ness

Tabel 1. shows that there are several plants that grow in the area of ​Central Java, in
Mamuju and data from Indonesian Food andDrugs Administration
 CONCLUSION

The diversity of medicinal plants found in Indonesia

is because Indonesia has a tropical climate

Medicinal plants consumed by squeezing or

crushed, boiled and baked, some are even used as
herbal medicine

Several medicinal plants that are processed into

simplicia have been able to compete in export and
import, one of which is from Central Java.
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