State of the art of ethnobotany in Indonesia
2004
Waluyo, E.B.(Research Centre for Biology - Lipi, Jl.Jr. H. Juanda 22, Bogor 16002 (Indonesia). Herbarium Bogoriense, Botany Div.)E-mail:[email protected]
Indonesia ia not only rich in its biodiversity but well known as a country with high diversity of ethnics. Each ethnic group has long experience in the utilization and conservation of biological and ecological diversity. This makes ethnobotanical research in Indonesia to progress steadily. Ethnobotanical study has long history in Indonesia and dated back to the early Dutch colonization period when they recorded the use of plants by the natives such as for food, medicine, building materials, etc. Hasskari (1845) suggested that Indonesia has 900 species of plants used by the local community. Previously, Rumphius (1750) in his monumental book of Herbarium Amboinense have reported the useful plant from Ambon and its vicinity. Recently, Indonesian scientists have given more attention to the importance of ethnobotany to elaborate their traditional knowledge especially for the economic and yet to be discovered plants. The meaning, scope and status of ethnobotany as well as the uses of plant resources in Indonesia are elaborated in this paper, including the future prospect of ethnobotany and its contribution to the exploitation and conservation of the useful plants.
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