苏门答腊中西部——米南加保苏门答腊的中西部叫做米南加保。这是印度尼西亚的一个著名的地区,当地的居民有较高的文化水平。米南加保到现在还是一个母系社会。婚后女的仍留在母家,男的到女家去可以受到佳宾似的款待,甚至可以终身住在女家。父亲对儿女没有管教权,儿女的管教权属于母亲的兄弟或其男性亲属。米南加保的房屋有许多高及屋顶的柱子,这些柱子是用来划分各个住房,以便大家庭里的小家庭分居的。房屋的地板一般是离地六尺,屋顶一律是牛角式的。现代印度尼西并的第一部长篇小说“西蒂努(山合)雅”的作者鲁斯里和被称为现代印度尼西正最有价值的长篇小说“错误的教育”的作者姆依斯都是米南加保人, Midwest of Sumatra - Minangkabau Midwest of Sumatra is called Minangkabau. This is a famous area in Indonesia where local residents have a high level of literacy. Minangkabau still has a matriarchal society. After marriage, the woman still stays in her mother’s home, and the man goes to the woman’s house to be treated favorably to the guests and can even live in the girl’s house for life. The father has no right to discipline the children, and the children’s right to discipline belongs to the mother’s brother or to his male relatives. The houses in Minanakapu have a lot of tall, roofing pillars that divide each home so that small families in the extended family can separate. The floor of the house is usually six feet off the ground, and the roofs are all horned. Ruthi, the author of Modern Indonesia’s first novel “Sithinu” and author of the “Wrong Education”, the most valuable novel in modern Indonesia, Sri Lanka are Minnan plus insurance people,