OBJECT OF CULTURAL ADVANCEMENT 4

Traditional knowledge

Category explanation

Community ideas and knowledge embodying local values, arising from lived interaction with the environment, continually developed and passed to the next generation.

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ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES

Cultural works and practices

These examples help explain the category; they do not limit what cultural forms may be recorded.

Across Indonesia, including jamu makers and communities that cultivate, prepare, distribute, and consume its ingredients.

Jamu

The law explicitly lists jamu as traditional knowledge. Its herbal ingredients, adapted recipes, and healing know-how arise from practical experience and are informally transmitted.

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Kaili Rai communities in Taripa Village, Sindue District, Donggala Regency, Central Sulawesi.

Kaili Rai community knowledge of medicinal plants

A study documents knowledge of 41 medicinal-plant species, including their preparation and use. Its abstract does not establish how this knowledge is transmitted between generations.

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