Indonesia is the second richest country in the world from biodiversity aspect. There are about 30.000 species that has been identified and 950 species among them has been known have bio-pharmacy, namely plant, animal or microbial whose function as medicine, health food, and nutraceuticals for human, animal or plant their self. With such rich of biodiversity, Indonesia has big chance to become one of the biggest countries in traditional medicine industry. A natural cosmetic that uses plant as its sources has big market chance.

As one of alternative in development of bio-pharmacy or more well known as medicine plant, they have potential in development of traditional medicine and Indonesian cosmetic. In this time, this industry has developed by using plants that picked from natural forest and very little amount of them that cultivated by farmers. If so, cultivation technique of resources processing has not been requirements that wanted by industry, namely free of chemical matter and not contaminated by fungi or other microbes.

In order to push development of bio-pharmacy agribusiness in farmer level, it is very important to increase farmer capabilities in plant cultivation. Besides in the cultivation, post harvest and marketing aspect also need to be increased in effort to increase traditional medicine industry development and Indonesian cosmetic.

Natural medicine that firstly used by many countries in Asia, South America and Africa extend till advanced countries in Australia and North America today. In previous time natural medicine are used as hereditary tradition. The advance of knowledge and development of production and information technology, many pre-clinical and clinical tests are performed to enhance the benefit of natural medicine.

Traditional medicine from natural resources can be considered as has the same level with modern medicine because their production has been standardized, supported by scientific knowledge up to clinical test to human. By using clinical test will be convinced medical professions to use herbal medicine in health service facilities. People are also pushed to use herbal medicine because their benefit clearly proved scientifically, basic material consists of symplicia that has met tolerated requirements. The term of usage way uses pharmacology term such as diuretic, analgesic, antipyretic, etc that experienced pre clinical and clinical test, basic material and the end product has been standardized. Fito-pharmacy has to meet safe criteria according to requirement. The claim of benefit has to be proved based on clinical test, have conducted standardization to the matter that used in the end product, and meet quality requirement.