“toga” (taman obat keluarga)

IMPROVING PUBLIC HEALTH THROUGH SOCIAL
EMPOWERMENT AND UTILIZATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS OR
“TOGA” (TAMAN OBAT KELUARGA)” IN BANTUL, DAERAH
ISTIMEWA YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA
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DESI KURNIATI, 2MAYA NAJIHATUL ULA, 3RETNO VATIKA P., 4RISKA DWI PRAMITA SARI,
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RIZKY PUSPA DEWI
1,2,3,4,5
Midwifery Student of Vocational School, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
E-mail: 1,2,3,4,[email protected]
Abstract— Traditional healing using medicinal plants (Indonesian terms: TOGA/Taman Obat Keluarga) is legacy of
traditional wisdom and can be applied in this modern era for medication purposes. It is one of applied technologies which
have huge potential in the public health improvement. Education people and distributing TOGA in every household are some
efforts to popularize the utilization of TOGA in community. The methods used were counseling and demonstrating how to
utilize TOGA.From this research, there is indication that the one house and the other have TOGA and they know the way to
use TOGA.
Keyword— TOGA, Family Medicine Plant.
number of people who have medicinal plants is
rather low, that can be seen inFig 1. Hence,
awareness-raisingactivities about the importance of
medicinal plants are crucial matter.
I. INTRODUCTION
The utilization of medicinal plants in healing
treatment is one of the oldest medication techniques
in the world. Every society in this world owns
particular traditional medication and medicinal
plants. In Indonesia, utilization of medicinal plants is
a legacy from ancient civilization and can be used as
a way to improve public health. It can be applied in
one’s prevention, therapy, and recovery phase.
Medicinal plants used to be cultivated in some
regions in Indonesia, but there are some obstacles in
the way. One of the obstacles is in management and
utilization of TOGA. According to survey hold by
Survei Mawas Diri (SMD)at Bantul, Daerah
Istimewa Yogyakarta,in 2015,it shows that the
II. EXPERIMENTAL DETAIL
Data was obtained by visiting every household,
conducting interview and directly checking
outwhether the household owns medicinal plants or
not.
After obtaining the data, medicinal plants or TOGA
were distributed according to the household’s
condition. The functions of the medicinal plants were
also given to the households.
Fig 1. The number and percentage of households growing medicinal plants in Bantul, DIY, Indonesia
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III. RESULT AND DISCUSSION
The strategy of traditional medicine usage has been
made by WHO since 2002 and developing up to
now. According to Dr. Margaret Chan, there a lot of
people who use traditional medicine and practice
traditional healing. Traditional healing and
traditional medicine are part of health services and
sometimes, they are the only health services which
people have.
Fig 2. Comparison of the number of households who grows
TOGA – back and then
Fig3. Flowchart of the activity
Indonesia government, in this case, Ministry of
Health, has made policies regarding to health
improvement throughthe utilization of domestic
medicinal plants garden or Taman Obat
Keluarga(TOGA). TOGA is the follow-through of a
program namedApotek Hidup(literal meaning: alive
pharmacy), which can be simply understood as a
garden wherehouseholds grow medicinal plants in
order to meet their medication needs.
Traditional medicine made of medicinal plants is
kind of treatment utilized and acknowledged by the
society. It shows that society has a will to go back to
nature in order to obtain good health and to cure
various diseases naturally.
The advantage of using traditional medicine is the
fact that it does not give any side effect which can
harm someone’s health in the future. Also,
certainmedicinal herbs can be easily found anywhere
and people can use it in emergency cases.
The utilization of medicinal plants to maintain good
health or to cure disease has been acknowledged a
long ago, even before modern medical treatment is
available. Various medicinal plants have been used
for generations and its utility is empirically is
acknowledged. Nowadays, many kind of medicinal
plants have been tested both clinically and preclinically, and have been widely distributed as
phytopharmaca or herbal medicine.
In the survey that has been conducted, 672
households have been surveyed. There are 192
households growing TOGA (29%), while the rest
480 households do not have TOGA(71 %). The low
number of people having TOGA made an activity
aiming to stimulate public awareness to grow toga is
needed.
After the activity being conducted, the data shows
that there are increasing in the number of households
(can be seen in Fig2) who grow medicinal plants(95
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%, equals to 639 households) and there are still 33
households who do not have domestic medicinal
plants garden or TOGA(5 %).Activity details are
displayed at Fig. 3.
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CONCLUSION
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Lack of knowledge about medicinal plants causes the
low number of households growing medicinal plants.
By conducting awareness-raising activity, there is
high expectation that people will start utilize
medicinal plants as main medication from now on.
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