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war. Because Minang customs contain many aspects such as legal,

social, political, educational, etc., it is necessary to limit the
problem, the researcher limits it to the educational aspect with the

title "The Concept of Education in Minang Customs".

To clarify the problem above, it is necessary to formulate
the problem under study. The formulation of the problem in this

thesis is "What is the concept of education contained in Minang
customs?".

C. Research purposes
The writing of this thesis is expected to contribute ideas to

science and especially the Minang community. In accordance with

the formulation of the problem above, the main purpose of this
study is to find out what the concept of education is contained in

Minang customs, especially Minang customs after the Paderi war.
D. Research methodology

In writing this thesis, the researcher uses library research,
because the problems studied are related to ideas and concepts of

thought, especially the thought of traditional education which is

extracted from the views, thoughts of traditional leaders and
thinkers. For this reason, researchers collect references from the

library in the form of books, magazines, scientific writings and

tambo (historiography), namely writings based on word of mouth.