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A Long and Winding Road

Monday, October 19, 2020

Not all of Indonesia’s biodiversity has been exploited to make natural medicines. Government subsidies must not be the determining factor.

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IT is time our pharmaceutical industry stopped being dependent on imported ingredients. No less than 96 percent of the chemical ingredients for drugs come from overseas, despite research from the health ministry in 2017 showing there were 11,218 types of medicinal plant in Indonesia. Ironically, our national pharmaceutical industry only produces 24 types of phytopharmacological—or herbal—medicines, meaning they are produced from natur

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