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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minangkabau_people Minangkabau people ] in Indonesia have a unique system of deliberation. It is called <i>Adat. </i> The cultural heritageof heritage of the Minangkabau is based on maternal linage lineage and heredity of property from the mother. Adat is a normative rules rule and usage of the deliberation and decision -making system. Adat institutes active in the villages, and some time is cities. most villages have adat.
<i>Buah gadang </I> is the smallest social unit recognized under the adat. Its members share a common property. It is leaded led by <i>panghulu</i>. There are about 20 to 100 <i>buah gadangs </i> under the village council. The council has members which who are called <i>panghulu</i>. Each panghulu represents his linage. Every linage has sub-linages which are represented by <i>mamks</i>. The memks represent their people.
The adat have has several rules<ref>[http://commission-on-legal-pluralism.com/volumes/19/kvonbendabeckmann-art.pdf Von Benda-Beckmann, K. (1981). Forum shopping and shopping forums: Dispute processing in a Minangkabau village in West Sumatra. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 13(19), 117–159.]</ref>:
:The Kamanakah (people of the sub-linage) are subject to the mamk (head of the sub-lineage).
The problem should be solved at the lowest possible level, and only if the appropriate level can't solve it, they should go to a higher authority. Everybody has its own tern to speak. The deliberation is led by the head of the council (in the respective level). Decisions are made unanimously. All families are equal.
The decision should have consent on all parties involveinvolved, all down the ladder.
===Source 1===
[http://www.second-congress-matriarchal-studies.com/sanday.html Matriarchal Values and World Peace: The Case of the Minangkabau]
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