NUANCE MINANGKABAU: April 2011

About Minangkabau

Minangkabau or commonly abbreviated Minang are ethnic groups speaking archipelago and uphold traditional Minangkabau. Adherent culture areas include West Sumatra, Riau mainland half, the north of Bengkulu, the western part of Jambi, North Sumatra's west coast, southwest of Aceh, and also Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia. In ordinary conversation, people are often confused as the Minang Padang, referring to the name of the West Sumatra provincial capital is the city of Padang. However, the group will usually refer to as urang crew, which meant the same as the Minang itself.

According A.A. Navis, more to the Minangkabau culture of an ethnic Malay-growing and large because of the monarchy, as well as a distinctive system of customs, which is characterized by the system of kinship through the male line or matrilineal, though also a very strong culture characterized the teachings of Islam, while Thomas Stamford Raffles, after an expedition into the interior of the seat of the kingdom of Minangkabau Pagaruyung, stating that the Minangkabau is a source of strength and origin of the Malay race, which was then the population is widespread in the Eastern Islands.

Currently Minang society is matrilineal society adherents in the world. In addition, ethnicity has also been implemented proto-democratic system since pre-Hindu customs with the density to determine important matters and legal issues. Minangkabau adat principles contained in the brief statement basandi Indigenous syarak, syarak basandi Qur'aan (customary law of the Qur'an) which means the customs based on the teachings of Islam.

Minangkabau people are very prominent in the fields of commerce, as professionals and intellectuals. They are distinguished inheritor of the tradition and the Malay kingdom of Srivijaya old who likes to trade and dynamic. Nearly half of the total number of members of this community are in overseas. Minang overseas generally live in large cities, like Jakarta, Bandung, Pekanbaru, Medan, Batam, Palembang, and Surabaya. Outside the territory of Indonesia, ethnic Minang numerous in Kuala Lumpur, Seremban, Singapore, Jeddah, Sydney, and Melbourne.

Minang community has a distinctive cuisine is popularly known as Padang cuisine, and is very popular in Indonesia even until abroad.

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