WEST SUMATRA
Rumah Gadang
Turner, Peter. et.al. 1995. Indonesia: A Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit. Hong Kong: Lonely Planet Publication
The capital city of West Sumatra is Padang. The native ethnic group of this province is the Minangkabau. Islam is the main religon of the population.
Unlike most ethnic groups in Indonesia who practice patrilineal system, the Minang people practice matrilineal system, where the inheritage rights fall to the women. Perhaps that is why many Minangkabau men leave their villages and work in other places. Usually they open up food vendors and sell Minang foods. Minang foods are very good but they are very hot and spicy.
"Rumah Gadang" or the "Big House" is the traditional house of the Minangkabau people. This house has a roof that shaped like buffalo's horns.
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