Later in life he was awarded the title Datuk Maradjo Sutan by his matrilineal clan in Minangkabau.
The Padri War is also called the Minangkabau War, and was fought from 1803 until 1837 in West Sumatra between two rival Muslim factions
The Bugis-Minangkabau blooded woman is also quite shocking the public with his decision to get married at the age of 18, when his career has just flown.
Overseas Minangkabau leave their hometown to start a career in other Indonesian cities as well as neighboring countries, and Padang restaurants, Minangkabau eating establishments that are ubiquitous in Indonesian cities, spring up.
Arifin Bey (5 March 1925 – 2 September 2010) was born in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra in the Minangkabau heartland of West Sumatra, one year before the Communist revolt in 1926, and three years before the participants of Youth Conference in 1928 avowed themselves to be one people, the Indonesian people, constituting one nation, Indonesia, with one language Bahasa Indonesia.
Nurdin, a young Minangkabau doctor, has just finished ten years of medical school in Batavia (now Jakarta).
Usman was born the fourth of nine children in Mersam, Batanghari, Sumatra in 1943 during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia from a union between his father, H. Usman Abul, of Minangkabau descent and his mother, Cholijah, who was Malayu.
Examples of matrilocal societies include the people of Ngazidja, the Ancient Pueblo Peoples of Chaco Canyon, the Nair community in Kerala in South India, the Moso of Yunnan and Sichuan in southwestern China, the Siraya of Taiwan, and the Minangkabau of western Sumatra.
The artist with Minangkabau ancestry has since become more famous, with the Dime Novel role in a soap opera with Evan Sanders Willy training mixed martial arts and judoka.
Andalas University historian, Prof. Gusti Asnan suggests that rendang began to spread across the region when Minangkabau merchants and migrant workers began to trade and migrate to Malacca in the 16th century.
Yusof was of Minangkabau descent from his father's side while his mother was a Malay from the Langkat region in Indonesia.
The eldest child in a family of three boys and five girls, Zubir Said was born on 22 July 1907 in Bukittinggi in the Minangkabau highlands of West Sumatra, Indonesia.