LEGAL PROTECTION OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS IN INDONESIA

One result of Indonesian culture is traditional knowledge. The activity of traditional medicine practitioners is regulated by Law No. 36 of 2009 "On Health”. One of the traditional treatments is a religious approach, but it has not received full recognition because it contradicts the principles of medical science. However in everyday life, this approach is valid and proven. This study aims to determine the urgency of legal protection to protect the traditional medicine profession based on supernatural and religion. This research is a normative legal research with statutory, conceptual, and comparative approaches. The results of the study show that regulation and legal protection of traditional medicine practitioners are very important because this is an effort to improve public health according to the constitutional mandate and the people's right to health. This legal protection also aims to provide full recognition to the traditional medicine as a profession and legal certainty for traditional medicine practitioners. In order to be able to participate in health care and preserve the nation's culture, the profession of traditional medicine practitioners must be enshrined in the form of legislation, such as the Law "On Health”