Patient safety is very important in the hospital. Patient safety needs to be considered so that in handling patients there is no Adverse Events, reducing complaints while improving the quality of the hospital. Competent health professional such as doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others will improve the patient safety in hospital. To assess the competence of hospital human resources can be measured by credentials. The credential process needs to be done to the pharmacist because although a pharmacist has received a pharmacist's diploma from an accredited college, the hospital remains obliged to perform competence verification through the credential process for the patient safety in the hospital and avoid occurrence of Adverse Events that can endanger patients. The purpose of this study is to analyze the pharmacist credential system in Indonesia, especially the pharmacist credential system in the Yogyakarta area hospital. The qualitative study was conducted in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The data were collected through in-depth interview which was attended by representative of the professional organization and collected through focus group discussion which was attended by pharmacists working in hospitals in Yogyakarta. A total of one representative of the professional organization and fifteen pharmacists participated in the study as two groups of respondents. The results of the in-depth interview and FGDs were analyzed with a qualitative approach. For the results of this study, currently known there is no specific law enforcement regulation related to the credential system for pharmacists. The credential system becomes a hospital requirement after the accreditation and fulfillment of administrative requirements of accreditation become the main motivation to implement pharmacist credentials. Pharmacist has the needs of improving the credential system both in theory and application. Expectations of pharmacist practitioners on the process of ideal pharmacist credentials are possible with supporting elements of professional organizations Keywords: patient safety, pharmacist credential, accreditation