The Indonesian Traditional Healer Accountability in the Law and Culture Perspectives

DOI

10.2991/icils-18.2018.55How to use a DOI?

Keywords

accountability; traditional healing; Law

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyse the Indonesian traditional healer accountability in the law and culture perspectives. The traditional healing has been existed in Indonesian since many years ago. Moreover, they are known as part of Indonesian tradition because they are developed over generations. There are many kind of the traditional healing existed. In Indonesia, the traditional healing practices are legal. Since most of Indonesian people are not well educated, the traditional healing practice still become their first choice of health problem.This study discusses the traditional healing accountability in Indonesia based on the law and the culture perspective. There are 3 legal regulations related to the traditional healing accountability in Indonesia. These are the Law No. 36 / 2009 on Health, the Law No. 36/2014 on Health Care Personnel and the Indonesian Government Regulation No. 103/2014 on Traditional Health Service. Traditional healing is also known as “alternative healing practice”. As the results of those regulations, many of Indonesian healer are practicing among communities, using their variable of healing practices between them. Unfortunately, inappropriate practices could result in poor or devastating effects. Based on that background, this article will answear two questions. Firstly, how is the Indonesia government regulate the tradisional healing ?. Secondly, how is the Indonesian traditional healer accountability ?.This study concludes that Indonesian government urgently needs to improve their control to the practices of the traditional healing although in Indonesia has been regulated that in the Indonesian regulation. Therefore, the Indonesian government should support the establishment of the Indonesian traditional healer community in order to improve the qualification and skill of the traditional Indonesian healer and ethics council. The government should support the traditional Indonesian healer provides affordable training. The sanctions that can be imposed on traditional healers for wrongful act are legal sanctions such as administrative, civil and criminal sanction.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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