EXPERIMENTAL METHOD 1 Study area and people RESULT AND DISCUSSION

Bogor, 21-22 October 2015 613 method to cure common disease such as itchiness, fever, flu, malaria, asphyxia Kuntorini, 2005; Sangat et al., 2000, even serious diseases such as diabet and cancer. Plants used by Dayak ethnic in East Kalimantan as medicine is very diverse. The diversity of medicinal plants species has not been completely documented. This causes loss of the knowledge along with the reduction of traditional healers, traditional birth attendants, shaman and older people who knows medicinal plants well. The aim of this research was to document the medicinal plants and their use for traditional medication by the people of Dayak tribe at Kabupaten Paser, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. 2. EXPERIMENTAL METHOD 2.1 Study area and people This study took place in Kabupaten Paser, East Kalimantan. Kabupaten Paser 11.603,94 km 2 is located in East Kalimantan Province of Indonesia, 145 Km from Balikpapan. Its coordinates are 00 4518,37 - 20 2720,82 LS and 1150 3614,5 -1660 5735,03 BT and situated at 0 - 500 m above sea level Pemda Kabupaten Paser, 2008. The explorations are done in Petangis village of Batu Engau subdistrict, Suatang Bulu village and Suatang village of Pasir Belengkong subdistrict, and Muara Andeh village of Muara Samu subdistrict Figure 1. Figure 1: Maps of kabupaten Paser and study location red circle 2.2 Data collection The interview was conducted with snowball sampling technique using questionnaire, which consisted of question about local name, plant part used, preparation method and way of usage and habitat of medicinal plants. The key informants are traditional healer, traditional birth attendants, shaman and the older people who knows about medicinal plants well. Field observation was done along with the respondent as a guide in order to collect voucher specimen and to take picture of the plants. The plants specimen were collected, pressed, dried, and mounted on herbarium sheets. Their scientific names were identified in the Herbarium Wanariset. Bogor, 21-22 October 2015 614

3. RESULT AND DISCUSSION

There are five respondents whom we interviewed to get the information of medicinal plants used by dayak paser people. All of the respondents work as farmers but they have skills of traditional medication. Because of difficulties in accessing modern medicine and the lack of health facilities, they use plants from the forest or around their garden to treat themselves, family or neighbours. The ability of identifying medicinal herb was passed down from the elders to the the next generation. Kinds of medicinal plants that been used by Dayak in Paser are varied. There are 107 species of plants Table 1. Most of them are found in the forest around the village. Those plants are used to treat 47 kinds of disease such as cataract, cold, or acne. Most of them are used to heal stomachache 8 species, itchiness 8 species, fever 6 species, and wound 6 species. There are two ways to consume the medicinal plants; by oral medication drinking and eating and by topical medication adhering, compressing, rubbing, inhalation of aromatherapy, and eyedrop. The most common is by oral. By boiling the plant on water, secondary metabolite inside the plants can be extracted. The part of plant that most commonly used are leaves. Other parts of plant that used in traditional healing are root, shoot, bark, stem, fruit, and flower. The highest usage rate of leaves is due to easiness of obtaining and processing them for medicine rather than those of bark, stem or root Hamzari, 2008; Setyowati, 2010. Beside of that, the using of leaves will not cause apprehansion of conservation of medicinal plants Setyowati, 2010.

4. CONCLUSION