History
The place where the Minangkabau people originate.
What is West Sumatra, Indonesia?
The Minangkabau call their homeland by this name, meaning “The Minangkabau World.”
What is Alam Minangkabau?
The Mamak-kemenakan relationship is between?
An uncle and their niece or nephew
Name one of the three agricultural practices of the Minangkabau?
Wet rice cultivation, dry farming, and sawah (using irrigated fields)
What is the leading tourist destination in West Sumatra?
Bukittinggi
When Indian influences began shaping small kingdoms in Sumatra.
What is the 5th century?
This concept, meaning “customary law,” guides Minangkabau behavior and social life.
What is adat?
Merantau is?
Voluntary emigration
Who follows the markets as they move from one nagari to another?
merchants
What is a major tourist attraction in Bukittinggi?
European trading company that dominated the region in the 1600s
What is the Dutch East India Company (VOC)?
These are the two main political systems within Adat.
What are Koto-Piliang (aristocratic) and Bodi-Caniago(democratic)?
The Minangkabau moved from the darat to rantau because?
The darat was becoming very populated and they needed to travel to trade.
What is Rumah Gadang?
The Minangkabau are still known as the world's largest
matrilineal society
These two forces led to the downfall of the Minangkabau kingdom in the 19th century.
What are rebellion and Dutch colonial expansion?
This 19th-century conflict pitted Islamic reformers against defenders of adat.
What are the Padri Wars?
The Minangkabau nowadays can migrate wherever as long as they
maintain a connection with their home village
Where do boys live between the age of 6 and when they are married?
In their formal Islamic school which is in nagaris prayer houses.
What is displayed in the Bukittinggi Museum?
clothing, instruments, art
He became Indonesia’s first president after independence in 1945.
Who is Sukarno?
The Minangkabau are known for blending these two belief systems into a single, balanced moral code.
What are adat and Islam?
Why would some people partake in Merantau?
To earn money to support their family, continue their education, and/or just to gain outside experience.
The Penghulu is?
The head chief of your matrilineal family.
Who still remain the head of households and heirs to land?
Women