Jamu seminar opens next month

Jamu seminar opens next month

JAKARTA (JP): An exhibition and seminar on Indonesia's
traditional herbal medicine, jamu, its role as an alternative
medicine and strategies to market it globally, will be held at
the Kartika Chandra Hotel here on Sept. 12 and Sept. 13.

Program organizers -- the Health Writers Club and dating
agency Yasco -- announced yesterday that Minister of Health
Sujudi is to open the function and K.R. Hemas, the wife of
Yogyakarta's Sultan Hamengku Buwono X have, will close it.

Committee chairman M.S. Hasbie said the aim of the exhibition
and seminar was to promote the use of jamu as an alternative
medicine as well as to analyze the extent to which the government
promotes it through its policies.

Hasbie said all jamu companies were welcomed to participate in
the exhibition, and added that jamu vendors would also be invited
to take part in the event.

The seminar, he said, would feature government bureaucrats,
jamu experts and successful jamu businesspeople like the health
ministry's Director General of Medicine and Food Supervision
Wisnu Katim, Professor Sardjono O. Santoso of the University of
Indonesia, and businesswomen Mooryati Soedibyo and Martha Tilaar.

Parties interested in participating in the exhibition or the
seminar can contact the committee secretariat at Jl. Kramat
Lontar J-67, Central Jakarta, or call 3857005/fax: 3147234 for
further information. (aan)