Minangkabau ceremonial and festival

Baralek Gadang - Wedding ceremony


Minangkabau ceremonies and festivals include:

• Turun mandi - baby blessing ceremony

• Sunat rasul - circumcision ceremony

• Baralek - wedding ceremony

• Batagak pangulu - clan leader inauguration ceremony. Other clan leaders, all relatives in the same clan and all villagers in the region are invited. The ceremony will last for 7 days or more.

• Turun ka sawah - community work ceremony

• Manyabik - harvesting ceremony

• Hari Rayo - Islamic festivals

• Adoption ceremony

• Adat ceremony

• Funeral ceremony

• Wild boar hunt ceremony

• Maanta pabukoan - sending food to mother-in-law for Ramadhan

• Tabuik - Muslim celebration in the coastal village of Pariaman

• Tanah Ta Sirah, inaugurate a new clan leader (Datuk) when the old one died in the few hours (no need to proceed batagak pangulu, but the clan must invite all clan leader in the region).

• Mambangkik Batang Tarandam, inaugurate a new leader (Datuk) when the old one died in the pass 10 or 50 years and even more, must do the Batagak Pangulu.

and many more...


Tabuik