Other websites sell products that are a health risk because they are not government-controlled. On the Internet, even school children can pretend to be trading companies. But you better buy from sites that can prove that they are genuine businesses.

Our company is properly licensed and controlled by the government of Indonesia where we are located. The plants we use are properly identified by scientists. Our extracts are properly licensed and have been tested in our own laboratories and laboratories of the Indonesian government.

Tongkat ali is now sold by many small Internet traders, many of whom mix their own supplements. Because in many Western countries, the sale of dietary supplements is as unregulated as the sale of food, most of these products have not undergone any regulatory process.

The tongkat ali and kacip fatimah capsules of Sumatra Pasak Bumi are probably the only ones that are licensed by national authorities (in this case of the fourth largest country in the world, Indonesia) not just as food supplement but as "traditional medicine". (The US does not use the classification "traditional medicine". Our products are not pharmaceutical medicine as defined by the FDA. In compliance with FDA rules, we state that they are not intended to prevent, diagnose, or treat illnesses.

See below for links to photos that show how the Indonesian government license is printed on the labels of our bottles of extract capsules.

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If ever you look at another Nomor Depkes, check what product has been approved.

We at Sumatra Pasak Bumi have been approved by the Indonesian government to manufacture and sell extract in capsules. There is also another facility that sells extract capsules but has a Nomor Depkes only for sachets of 6 gram of root powder (not extract). This is the same as when a facility approved for band aids goes into the production of AIDS drugs. For both there is a license, but it's not the same one.

Nomor Depkes with corresponding bottles for tongkat ali capsules, 1:50 extract, 400 mg.

Nomor Depkes, full view for tongkat ali capsules of 1:50 extract, 400 mg.

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Nomor Depkes with corresponding bottles for tongkat ali capsules, 1:50 extract, 200 mg.

Nomor Depkes, full view for tongkat ali capsules of 1:50 extract, 200 mg.

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Nomor Depkes with corresponding bottles for tongkat ali capsules, 1:200 extract, 300 mg.

Nomor Depkes, full view for tongkat ali capsules of 1:200 extract, 300 mg.

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Nomor Depkes with corresponding bottles for tongkat ali capsules, 1:200 extract, 600 mg.

Nomor Depkes, full view for tongkat ali capsules, 1:200 extract, 600 mg.

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Business license, Izin Usaha, for our Tuntungan location. A business license of this kind is easy to obtain, and it is issued to anybody who requests it, without inspection.

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Production facility license for the manufacture of traditional medicines, issued by the Indonesian Department of Health. This license means that our facility has been approved to manufacture traditional medicine. However, it does not specify a product yet.

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Izin Gangguan Tempat Usaha Bukan Perusahaan Industri Industri Neighborhood permit for a non-industrial business (every registered business needs this, usually issued within one month).

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SIUP Trade license (not much to it, too; every Indonesian business, large or small, has this).

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Tanda Daftar Perusahaan-Perusahaan Perorangan Business registration for a non-public enterprise (issued to any Indonesian who requests it, within a few days).

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FDA facility registration number and information.

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Halal Certificate for the capsules used in our products.

We include these licenses on our website only because some con artists in the tongkat ali trade use precisely these documents to claim legitimacy.

Information, statements and products on this website have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, mitigate, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition.