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Indonesia Pharmaceuticals
Although Indonesia had achieved self-sufficiency in
basic
pharmaceutical production by the early 1990s, Indonesians
had the
lowest per capita expenditure for Western-style drugs in
ASEAN.
Most people appeared to rely at least partially on
traditional
herbal medicines, in part because the Western-style drugs
were
expensive. Quality control for the country's pharmacies
was lax,
but efforts were being made in 1992 to improve enforcement
of new
laws designed to control drug quality. By the late 1980s,
Indonesia
had more than 300 pharmaceutical companies and nearly
1,000
pharmaceutical wholesalers. Most were located in Java.
Data as of November 1992
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