Social Construction on Use of Supplements in Two Urban Societies: Cases in Padang and Pekanbaru, Indonesia

This Indonesian society is known as a plural society, both based on socio-economic structure and ethnicity. Such pluralism will create a polarization in the use of supplements in various community groupshowthe use of supplements socially constructed in urban societies is a significantquestion in this study. To answer the question, a research was donein Padang and Pekanbaru with qualitative research method. In order to obtain primary data, there were in-depth interviews of 20 users of supplements and 2persons from each carried “jamu” (traditio