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Notable people of Minangkabau descent outside of the Malay world include member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, Rustam Effendi; Ahmad Khatib, the imam (head) of the Shafi'i school of law at Masjid al-Haram; and Khatib's grandson Fouad Abdulhameed Alkhateeb as Saudi Arabian ambassador.
Islam is the most common religion in the Indonesian province of West Sumatra, embraced by 97.42% of the population. The Muslim population increases to 99.6% if it excludes the Mentawai Islands, where the majority of the non-Muslim ( Protestant) West Sumatrans reside. [1] Islam in West Sumatra is predominantly Sunni, though there is a small Shia ...
Minangkabau is the native language of the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra. [2] There are approximately 5.5 million speakers of the language. It is also spoken in the western part of Riau, South Aceh Regency, the northern part of Bengkulu and Jambi. [2] Along the western coastal region of North Sumatra, the language is also a lingua franca.
The Minangkabau Malaysians are citizens of the Malaysia whose ancestral roots are from Minangkabau of central Sumatra. This includes people born in the Malaysia who are of Minangkabau origin as well as Minangkabau who have migrated to Malaysia. Today, Minangkabau comprise about 989,000 people in Malaysia, [1] and Malaysian law considers most of ...
PT Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero) Tbk, lit. "National (State) Savings Bank", abbreviated and trading as BTN (currently stylized in its logo in all-lowercase ), is an Indonesian commercial bank best known as a mortgage bank, headquartered in Gambir, Jakarta. [3] Founded in 1897 by the government of the Dutch East Indies as a post office savings ...
Museum and cultural center. Minangkabau Culture Documentation and Information Center ( Indonesian: Pusat Dokumentasi dan Informasi Kebudayaan Minangkabau, or PDIKM) is a museum and research center for Minangkabau culture, [1] located in the city of Padang Panjang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. [2] [3] The center building is in the form of a ...
Minangkabau culture. Pagaruyung Palace, is the istana (royal palace) of the former Pagaruyung Kingdom. It was built in the traditional Minangkabau Rumah Gadang vernacular architectural style. Minangkabau culture is the culture of the Minangkabau ethnic group in Indonesia, part of the Indonesian culture. This culture is one of the two major ...
The Minangkabau clans or Minangkabau tribes ( Minangkabau: Suku-suku, sing. Suku) are traditional kinship groups of Minangkabau people of Sumatra, Indonesia sharing a common surname and heritage and existing in a lineage-based society prior to the 5th century. These clans are descended matrilineally.