Page 67 - BAB I-V ADATMINANG

in the dynamics of harmony, they in each become one to be

38
together and each to become the same to be alone.
On the other hand, in the koto piliang the traditional flow

is hierarchical, meaning that power comes from the king and goes

down to the lower levels of society, as custom symbolizes. In the
adat mamangan it is stated: The Batangga custom goes up, and the

bajanjang goes down. (Indigenous steps up, and tiered down).
The power in this system is very bureaucratic, arranged in

tiers from top to bottom or vice versa, and from this system
emerges a feudalistic understanding that is nobility in nature. So

there are groups of people who are respected on the basis of their

close kinship with the king or their nobility. Therefore, the koto
piliang school adheres to paternalistic understanding, which is a

system of government that is passed down from father to son, and
aristocratic in which the government places the nobility as the

leader.
For more details, see the following comparison:

1. Koto Piliang;As a traditional gatherer, Datuk

Ketumanggungan is aristocratic in nature with a “patah
tumbuah ilang baganti” (broken growth and loss of

change). A ruler or Datuk who can no longer carry out

38 AA Navis, Alam Takambang Becomes a Teacher and Minangkabau
Culture, (Jakarta: Graffiti Press, 1984), Cet. 1st, h. 60