Abidinsyah Siregar, director of Traditional, Alternative and Complementary Heath Services at the Health Ministry, is totally nonplussed. He cannot understand why today, traditional medicine remains so unappreciated.

"Our existence today should be proof of health services in the past, before there were doctors, before there were hospitals, during a time when we existed as human beings," said Abidin, at a meeting with the media at the Health Ministr