A mountain town with a large marketplace, an open-air museum, an ethnographic museum and a Dutch colonial fortress with silversmith workshops in the surrounding area. The surrounding area is inhabited by the Maningkabau tribe, whose culture is matriarchal, with property inherited through the female line and female-headed families living in large traditional houses.

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