Diabetes mellitus is now almost reaching the whole world, not only developed countries are stricken with this disease, but also developing countries now seem to have started to have the possibility of this disease. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), Indonesia ranks sixth as a country with the largest number of diabetes sufferers after India, China, Soviyet Union, Japan and Brazil. Recorded in 1995, the number of people with DM in Indonesia reached 5 million. In 2000 the last course, there are about 5.6 million people in Indonesia who have diabetes mellitus.
