Traditional Knowledge of the Ammatoa Kajang Indigenous Women for Covid 19 Mitigation in Bulukumba Regency, South Sulawesi Sri Endang Sukarsih*1), Makkarennu 2), Andang Suryana Soma 2)
1) Politeknik Pembangunan Pertanian Gowa, Jl. Malino No.KM. 7, Romang Lompoa, Bontomarannu, Kabupaten Gowa, South Sulawesi 92171
2)Forestry Department Faculty of Forestry Hasanuddin University, Jl, Perintis Kemerdekaan Km.10 Tamalanrea Makassar
*)Email : endang.sukarsih[at]gmail.com
Abstract
The condition of the covid-19 pandemic is difficult to predict when it will end, so community resilience is needed in dealing with this pandemic. Indigenous women have traditional knowledge to mitigate the covid-19 pandemic. Indigenous peoples 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, so research is needed to obtain traditional knowledge, especially the Ammatoa Kajang indigenous people in Bulukumba Regency. This study aims to determine women^s traditional knowledge and the potential for food security of the Ammatoa Kajang indigenous community 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 showed that traditional knowledge of indigenous women had 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. The introduction knowledge is from ancestral heritage from generation to generation. Cultivation, taking as needed from the outskirts of the forest and letting it grow naturally and plant in the yard of the house. They used it by attaching leaves to the body area, drinking boiled water from plants, and eating raw or processed vegetables.
Keywords: traditional knowledge, indigenous women Ammatoa Kajang, COVID- 19 mitigation
Topic: Covid-19: Issues and Challenges in Vegetables for Resilience during Pandemic
