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Other people such as the Malay and Muslim Simalugun are indigenous population in the area. These people all have their own health care traditions, and also have available to them the folk medicine of other ethnic groups in the area and modern health care in government- and estate-run facilities. This region, then, provides an arena for the activities of a variety of health care practitioners and for transactions between healers and clients of various ethnic groups and medical traditions.","Inter-ethnic transactions occur in the treatment of local-cultural illnesses and in cases of chronic and psychosomatic symptoms, especially when an illness develops that cannot be handled either within one's own ethnic domain or in the biomedical domain. Javanese patients tend to use healers from other ethnic groups because they are believed to provide effective cure for those ailments. 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