If we hear people refer to the Minangkabau is definitely the thought by us is the city of Padang, West Sumatra, or however to add knowledge to all of us, the authors will describe which areas back into the Minangkabau region the community certainly Society of Minangkabau.
The following are some of the areas belonging to the Minangkabau area:
1. The whole area of West Sumatra,
2. Half of Riau's land
3. The western part of jambi,
4. The northern part of Bengkulu
5. Southwest Aceh
6. the Negeri Sembilan Malaysia
From the description above, we can see that there are areas of the policy that is in the country of Malaysia. And unfortunately, at this time there are not many young people of Minangkabau who know this.
From a brief history, negeri sembilan Minangkabau territories became since the arrival of the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra mainland who go abroad to Malaysia, and the area is formed by the nomads of the policy and made the region the settlement during the heyday of the Sultanate of Malacca.
Negeri Sembilan or also known as Negeri Sembilan Darul Special is one of the States in the Federation of Malaysia. The State is located on the Malay peninsula is bordered on the North by Selangor, Pahang to the East, Johor in the South East, the South, Malacca and the Strait of Malacca in the West.
And then the political map changes and competition power in the Malay Peninsula, causing a change in the status of the Government and the territory of the Kingdomof Negeri Sembilan. After the independence of Malaysia, a country of nine became a part of Malaysia Yang Dipertuan Besar and Negeri Sembilan Tuanku Abdul Rahman became Yang di-Pertuan Agong first Malaysia.
From several sources also can we see, that in Negeri Sembilan also houses Gadang which became a characteristic of Minangkabau people, and it is the one which becomes evidence that Negeri Sembilan Malaysia is one of the Minangkabau region
