Siti Fadillah Supari (born in Surakarta, Central Java, November 6, 1949) was the past Minister of Health of Indonesia in United Indonesia Cabinet.
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Claiming Western governments could be developing viruses for dissemination in the developing world with the goal of generating business for pharmaceutical companies, Supari refused World Health Organization (WHO) researchers access to Indonesia's H5N1 bird flu virus samples in 2006.[1][2] Indonesia resumed sending some H5N1 samples to WHO after a new agreement that developing nations would get access to vaccines.[3]
On 28 April 2009, Supari told reporters at a press conference the H1N1 strain of swine flu may be man-made.[1]
I'm not sure whether the virus was genetically engineered but it's a possibility.[1]
In 12 May 2009 Siti Fadilah Supari express her dissatisfaction of seeing a lot of foreign medical student in Indonesia. She asked Universitas Padjadjaran Rector, Bandung to cut down foreign student intake in phases especially from Malaysian while visiting Cicendo Eyes Hospital, Bandung [4]
Supari is well known cardiology research specialist, and is married to Muhammad Supari.
She has spoken out against Western hegemony in Islamic and third world nations. Speaking at a 2008 conference of Forum Kajian Sosial Kemasyarakatan (FKSK) in Jakarta, she gave her opinion that Islamic ideology was ideal for Indonesia.[5]