Documentation of medicinal plants used by Aneuk Jamee tribe in Kota Bahagia Sub-district, South Aceh, Indonesia

Abstract

Abstract. Suwardi AB, Mardudi, Navia ZI, Baihaqi, Muntaha. 2021. Documentation of medicinal plants used by Aneuk Jamee tribe in Kota Bahagia sub-district, South Aceh, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 21: 6-15. Aneuk Jamee is one of the ethnic communities living along the western-south coast of Aceh. Various plants are used by the Aneuk Jamee tribe as a traditional medicine in treating diseases and disorders. The aim of this study was therefore to document the medicinal plants used by the Aneuk Jamee tribe in the Kota Bahagia sub-district, South Aceh, Indonesia. This study was conducted in three villages, namely Jombo Keupok, Seuneubok Kuranji, and Alur Dua Mas, Kota Bahagia subdistrict, South Aceh District, Aceh Province. This study was based on field surveys, plant collection, and interviews with the local people. Interviews were performed with 60 informants selected by using the Snowball Sampling technique. A total of 96 medicinal plant species, consisting of 50 families, have been documented to be used by the Aneuk Jamee tribe in the Kota Bahagia subdistrict. Fifty-nine (61%) species are cultivated and 37 (39%) species are wild. Leaves are the most widely used plant part (28%), followed by the fruit (19%), flower and tuber (6% each), seed (3%), and sap (2%) and the main mode of preparations are decoction (60%), followed by raw consumption (14%), smeared (10%), pounded (7%), dropped (6%), and affixed and squeezed (1% each). The high informant consensus factor (ICF=0.98) was assigned to the diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism category.

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“…During the discussion, respondents stated that many children were interested in learning about medicinal plants from traditional healers or elders in their village. This study consistent with Suwardi et al (2021) reported that traditional knowledge education on the use of medicinal plants has been given to children in the Aneuk Jamee tribe from an early age.…”

“…The most represented family was Asteraceae with 8 species, followed by Euphorbiaceae (7 species), Rutaceae and Zingiberaceae (6 species each), Piperaceae (5 species), Myrtaceae (4 species), and Annonaceae and Rubiaceae (3 species each). The total species of medicinal plants found in this study (107 species) is higher than the medicinal plants found in the Subulussalam district, Aceh province (22 species) (Hasanuddin et al 2021), and Kota Bahagia, South Aceh (96 species) (Suwardi et al 2021). However, it is lower than the medicinal plants used by the sub-ethnic Batak Simalungun of North Sumatra (239 species) (Silalahi et al 2015).…”

“…However, only about 20-22% of them are cultivated, while the rest 78% are still harvested from the wild (Azmin et al 2019). Local communities have long used various plant species for medicinal purposes (Jadid et al 2020;Suwardi et al 2021) as well as for food (Elfrida et al 2020;Navia et al 2015;Navia et al 2020a;Suwardi et al 2020a;Suwardi et al 2020b;Navia et al 2021), traditional ceremonies (Sutrisno et al 2020), and household income (Suwardi et al 2020c). The interaction between humans and plants has long been described as one of the factors influencing human civilization, particularly in medical fields (Yeung et al 2020).…”

“…Many ethnobotanical studies in Indonesia describe the use of medicinal plants by the indigenous community for healing processes in which this knowledge has been practiced and inherited from generation to generation (Sujarwo et al 2015;Batoro and Siswanto 2017;Mustofa et al 2020;Rahmawati et al 2020;Suwardi et al 2021). In Indonesia, particularly in the Aceh province, there is a tendency of declining traditional knowledge among the younger generation (Navia et al 2020b;Suwardi et al 2020c).…”

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“…Aceh has high biodiversity, such as native fruit plants [1][2][3][4], herbs and spices [5], and tuberous plants [6] many of which have been used by local communities as medicinal plants [1,7,8], ancient rituals [9], garden plant and animal feed [10], and construction materials [11]. The Acehnese people also use plants for their livelihoods and make efforts to conserve plant biodiversity [12,13].…”