Hi guys
Welcome back to my video....my name is Jasmine. This is my fourth video. In this video I would like to talk about something that related to my identity. I would like to introduce my culture which is Minangkabau Culture.
First of all, have you ever heard about Minangkabau or urang Minang before ?. If you're Indonesian, I bet you have heard about this.
Minangkabau is one of Indonesian tribe who live on highland of West Sumatra. Minangkabau is formed under matrilineal culture in term of marriage, inheritance and the way of living and they are the largest matrilineal society in the world.

Minangkabau people live in West Sumatra, West Riau, West Aceh, Southern part of North Sumatra, East Jambi, North Bengkulu and others live in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.

The name Minangkabau is thought to be a conjunction of two words. The first word is minang referred to menang ( Indonesian ) and victory ( English ). The second word is kabau referred to Kerbau ( Indonesian ), buffalo ( English ). The etymology came from one of the histories of ancient time when Minangkabau people were attacked by the neighbor kingdom. And to avoid the war, both made a deal to use buffalo fight. Fortunately, the Minangkabau buffalo has had the victorious then people named it as Minangkabau.

Minangkabau principles are set in statement of Adat basandi syara’, syara’ basandi Kitabullah which referred to The culture is based on law, while the law is based on Al-Quran. In other words, their culture is officially based on Al-Quran.

By that constitution, after the arrival of Islamic reformers from Middle East on late 18 century, Minangkabau tradition which inconsistent with Islamic law was removed from the society. For instance, the culture of chicken fight, bull fight, consuming tuak or traditional alcohol or holding traditional feasts community.

Seems like Chinese, Minangkabau people are also spread to all over the country. They immigrate to other area in some purposes, one of the causes is the matrilineal kinship system. By this system, the control of inheritance is held by women and men’s rights in this case is quite small.
Other reason is about to come from culture minded, which is the spirit to change the fate by pursuit knowledge and wealth. This also based on the Minangkabau words, “Karatau madang dahulu, babuah babungo alun, marantau bujang dahulu, di rumah paguno balun” which mean it will be better to immigrate than being useless.
This is like what I do now. I move to Malang to have better education, get new experience, and of course to get better life.

Everything about Minangkabau nowaday is become famous by its uniqueness, like their food and beverages. Padang food is everywhere which identically with hot and spicy taste.
Rumah makan Padang is really phenomenal.You can find it everywhere in our country. Not only in our country, you can also find this phenomenal restaurant in foreign countries such as Malaysia especially in Kuala Lumpur and Johor Baru, Singapore, Melbourne, New York, The Netherlands, Sydney, London, Beijing, Saudi Arabia, and other places.

Looking from their architectural, Minangkabau people have Rumah Gadang, or Gadang house. Rumah Gadang is served to be a hall for meeting and ceremonial activities, because it holds matrilineal system, the house is owned by women and passed to the daughter.

By the increasingly modern world nowadays, Minangkabau people are still on the old track holding their tradition to face modernization. They may not live in Rumah Gadang instead of modern classic home, but their spirit and culture minded are still the cornerstone above all.

Alright guys, I think that's all my video about introduction to Minangkabau culture. I hope you get information about Minangkabau culture from this video. Thanks for your attention. Thank you for watching and see you in the next video.

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COMMENT: Good vlog about your culture. Relating to the Padang food, is it true that Bukittinggi has one of the highest rate of heart attack in the world?

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