The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) has granted two prominent figures in herbal medicine with the Sarwono Prawirohardjo IX award.
Noted herbalist Mooryati Soedibyo and medicinal chemistry professor Umar Anggara Jenie received the award in a ceremony held in Jakarta on Monday. Umar, a former LIPI chairman, is known as a pioneer of pharmacology in the country. LIPI chairman Lukman Hakim said Umar was “one of Indonesia’s toughest scientists”.
When Umar chaired the National Bioethics Commission, the country hosted the 9th Asian Bioethics Conference.
Mooryati is the founder of cosmetics giant PT Mustika Ratu, one of the top traditional and herbal cosmetics makers in the country.
“Her creativity [applied] in Mustika Ratu over the years has ensured [the company] is a source of research on the development of new natural medicine,” Lukman said. “Her ideas, thoughts and realizations… inspire me to motivate the younger generation and our researchers to immediately replace ‘old science’ with ‘new science’,” he added. — JP
Sumber : The Jakarta Post