Preserving Ethnobotany in Wasur National Park South Papua Through Intellectual Property Rights Protection Muhammad Saiful Fahmi (a), Rudini Hasyim Rado (a), Ricardo Goncalves Klau (a), Ilham Majid (a)
a) Department of Law, Faculty of Law, Musamus University, Jalan Kamizaun Mopah Lama, Merauke, 99611, Indonesia.
E-mail: m.saifulfahmi[at]unmus.ac.id
Abstract
The increasingly advanced development of health technology has proved to be inadequate to the interest of both rural and urban communities in the use of traditional medicinal plants. It^s not apart from Indonesia^s cultural diversity and local wisdom, one of which is traditional medicine where there are species of medicinal plants that number approximately over 9,606 (nine thousand six hundred six). The problems found today are: first the legal protection of traditional medicinal plants in the prospect of Intellectual Property Rights and second is the minimum of direct contribution by the government to the use of knowledge of traditional medicine. The aim of this research is to find a link between the protection of intellectual property and the preservation of ethnobotani by indigenous communities in the South Papua Wasur National Park so that it can have potential economic benefits under Act No. 13 of 2016 on Patents. The research method used in this study is normative-empirical law research (applied law research) which is a research method that in this case combines normative law elements which are then supported by data as well as empirical elements. The ultimate objective of this research is to contribute to knowledge in the field of agriculture and law in particular the protection of intellectual property of medicinal plants in the South Papua Wasur National Park.
Keywords: Intellectual Property Rights- Traditional Medicine Plants- Wasur National Park
