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Background:The Indonesian Pharmacists Association (IAI) socializes the DAGUSIBU (Get, Use, Store and Dispose of) drugs properly. Sufficient knowledge about DAGUSIBU is expected to support the correct implementation of DAGUSIBU in the community, especially the people of Malang Regency. Subjects and Method: This research is an observational quantitative research with a cross sectional approach. The study consisted of 2 variables, namely the level of knowledge and the application of the drug dagusibu. The research instrument was in the form of a questionnaire containing several statement items. Statistical analysis in this study used Pearson correlation to find out whether there was a relationship between knowledge and application of medicinal DAGUSIBU in the people of Malang Regency. Results:The correlation test between the level of knowledge and application using SPSS was significant (Sig. 0.008) < of 0.01. Where the value of the r coefficient of 0.305 indicates a low level of relationship between the level of knowledge and the application of medicinal medicine. Conclusion:There is a significant relationship between knowledge and application of medicinal dagusibu in the community in Malang Regency, while the level of relationship between knowledge and application of medicinal dagusibu is included in the low category.