Traditional Knowledge of Women from the Ammatoa Kajang Custom for COVID-19 Mitigation in Bulukumba Regency, South Sulawesi

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10.2991/978-94-6463-028-2_60How to use a DOI?

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Traditional Knowledge; Women; Ammatoa Kajang; COVID-19

Abstract

The condition of the COVID-19 pandemic is difficult to predict when it will end. Community resilience is needed in the face of this pandemic. Indigenous women have traditional knowledge in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic. Indigenous people believe traditional knowledge as potential resilience that can overcome various diseases, especially COVID-19 and the like. However, this traditional knowledge has not been widely published. An in-depth study is needed to obtain traditional knowledge, especially the Ammatoa Kajang indigenous people in Bulukumba Regency. This study aims to determine the resilience of indigenous peoples in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic. The research method was carried out through literature study, observation, and interviews. The data that has been obtained were analyzed by descriptive method. The results show that traditional knowledge of indigenous women has resistance to the COVID 19 pandemic from herbal plants. Traditional knowledge is in the form of recognizing, cultivating, and utilizing herbal plants for physical fitness or maintaining health and treating various diseases, including symptoms and exposure to COVID-19. This introduction is an ancestral heritage from generation to generation. Cultivation, taking as needed from the forest’s outskirts and letting it grow naturally and planted in the yard. When using it, attach the leaves to the body area, drink boiled water from plants, and eat raw or processed vegetables.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sri Endang Sukarsih
AU  - Makkarennu Makkarennu
AU  - Andang Suryana Soma
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/12
TI  - Traditional Knowledge of Women from the Ammatoa Kajang Custom for COVID-19 Mitigation in Bulukumba Regency, South Sulawesi
BT  - Proceedings of the International Symposium Southeast Asia Vegetable 2021 (SEAVEG 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 582
EP  - 590
SN  - 2468-5747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-028-2_60
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-028-2_60
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