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Saturday, August 20, 2011

The Culture of West Sumatera

West Sumatra Province has interesting cultural diversity. Cultural richness of West Sumatra include traditional dances to the customs that exist in West Sumatra.

Indonesia's cultural wealth of art originating from West Sumatra should continue to be preserved and should receive more attention by local governments in particular so that later can attract tourists. Culture West Sumatra should be introduced and promoted as part of the cultural richness of Indonesia. One of the events to promote the culture of West Sumatra is the implementation of West Sumatra Cultural Week. In addition to introducing the culture of West Sumatra province to local communities as well for tourists visiting the province.

List of cultures of West Sumatra:

The traditional house of West Sumatra

Tower House is a traditional house from West Sumatra, originated from the Minangkabau tribe. The traditional house is usually built on land owned by parent families in the tribe / people are hereditary.

Tower House form is rectangular and divided into two parts, namely front and rear, Tower House made ​​of wood, and kalu be glimpsed almost like house on stilts. One peculiarity of this custom house in the manufacturing process is not using iron nails, but only use pegs made ​​of wood.

Dance of West Sumatra

Art of traditional dance from West Sumatra is usually derived from traditional ethnic culture and ethnic Minangkabau Mentawai. Dance of the Minangkabau are generally strongly influenced by Islam. There are some regional dances such as Tari Pasambahan, Plate Dance, Dance Dance Umbrella and Indang.

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