Antara News, Monday, April 5, 2010 13:38 WIB
Cipanas (ANTARA News) - First Lady Ani Yudhoyono inspected a herb garden at Cipanas presidential palace complex in Cianjur, West Java, on Monday morning.
The 2,600-square meter herbal garden with around 207 kinds of herbal plants, located at the east side of Cipanas palace, will serve as an example of herbal medicine development in the country.
Member of presidential team of doctors, dr Hardy Pranata said the development of herb garden at Cipanas palace was in line with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and First Lady Ani Yudhoyono`s program to introduce the country`s people with the cultivation, research, and use of herbal medicine at home.
"The expansion of herb garden here is in accordance with President Yudhoyono`s 2008 desire to preserve herbal medicine as a natural resource in the country," Hardy Pranata said.
Hardy who is concurrently Indonesian Herbal Doctors Association said the initiative to develop herb garden was also based on the instruction from the health minister on January 6, 2010 for the doctors to prescribe herbal medicine for their patients.
Meanwhile, director of the Indonesian traditional medicine at the National Agency of Drug and Food Control dr Sherley said the cultivation of herbal medicine in the country would continue to be developed.
"We will continue to cultivate herbal plants and to classify it into traditional medicine," Sherley said.
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