At the time of discussion and debate cabby friends with students at the Art Students Kuansing spur line of Yogyakarta, as a rather senior person (not a senior beneran soalnya many more super senior) I always asked by friends with the students the questions that are difficult I answered, and I often terpojok ... but I am happy with the cultural "maota" (discussion), here seen from the critical nature of their current reality, they keingintauan high ... hopefully they will be the generation reformer ... Student life! !.
Although busy with my affairs S.2 lecture me, but once in a week I take time for friends to discuss the student Kuansing ( "maota"). On a night I "maota" again with them, there is a rumor always tease my brain "bang ... we Kuansing this person, does not seem to have a cultural identity, we actually do this from the bang? If our language is similar to the Minang language, but we do not want in the Minang people, if we said the Malay language in terms of ... we are very much different with them. Arts obvious character Minang culture, art and culture is clearly Malay character ... then we kok gray? What we do not have a culture of its own character, I spontaneously answered "Kuantan our people" is not Malay Minang not.
At present there is no accurate information about the origin of people who live along the Kuantan River, there is also the term that people Kuantan "Barajo ka Indragiri, Ba ka Minangkabau adat." This term is only because I think that there are cultural phenomena, such as language, customs, arts and culture. But here I want to convey that the traditional Minangkabau tombo that heredity is told from mouth to mouth is not received by the sense me. In the tombo Minangkabau adat, as if that was the person who first set foot on the island ameh (Sumatra) is Maharajo dirajo (Sang Sapurba / Dapunta Hyang) kononnya who sailed on the boiler sabuah nan and anchored at the top of the peak langgapuri that he said at that time Mount Merapi is having a speech impediment and the mountain duck Singgalang of chickens having a speech impediment. From the top of the mountain merapilah fathers Minangkabau down and then spread to the Kuantan area. For more details, I write the following custom tombo (in the form of Minang classical literature):
Baked-in security gatok
dikirai-long strip dibaka
Tatangguak fish gulamo
spelled out in the atok -
dikirai-long strip dipapa
dikambang the legend LAMO
Takalo maso dahulunyo
samusim maso saisuak
katiko langik basentak down
earth basentak naiak
lauik sacampak jalo
land darek balun lai leba
nan timbua gunuang Merapi
Alley in niniak fathers kito
usua despair when examined
in the legend LAMO
sapiah balahan tigo row
Sajurai ka banda cino
sajurai ka banda ruhum
sajurai ka island ameh nangko
Parties in the Sutan Marajo in Rajo
taniaik in the heart
tacinto in-Kiro Kiro
balayia inyo dimaso that
in the boiler ateh nan sabuah
cukuik jo clever cati says
LAMO boiler deck balayia mak
the lauik baharullah
takijok-fire appeared kijok
gunuang that suaso maso
diateh peak langgapuri
banamo gunuang marapi
Sinan sirangkak nan badangkang
sarato buayo putiah daguak
dibatu ampa putiah
in bukik ampa patigo
banamo bukik siguntang-guntang
Dimano titiak palito
dibaliak telong nan batali
dimano down niniak kito
iyo at the peak of Merapi gunuang
(grandmother moyangnya so dear leader marijan times ...)
Ka Basentak down under
la tibo diguguak ampang
sinan lagundi nan baselo
sinan island bataratak
sabalun bakorong with kampuang
sabalun bakoto jo nagari
Maso badeta-deta upiah
maso bacawan panarahan
LAMO deck natural baputa
urang batambah kambang juo
kamanakan manjadi many
jo dibuek rice fields
dibuek be customary law
ciek-structured handles ciek
dipaku katiang long
food urang tigo luhak
Manolah luhak nan tigo
nan tuo luhak Tanah Datar
nan tangah luhak Agam
nan youngest luhak Five Puluah
karantau jo pasisia ago
surampi natural river pagu
Manuruik barih balabeh customary
nan salilik Mount Merapi
saedaran gunuang Pasaman
sajajaran sago Singgalang jo
saputaran fuller karinci jo
From sirangkak nan badangkang
hinggo buayo putiah daguak
until kapintu Rajo hilia
durian ditakuak Rajo
Sipiak knife anyuik
beehive balantak casserole
hinggo AIA babaliak mudiak
waves up to ka nan badabuah
Sailiran stem sikilang
hinggo lauik nan sadidi
rao jo mapatungga sarato gunuang mahalintang
Pasisia banda sapuluah
AIA hinggo taratak black
to ka tanjuang simalidu
Nine pucuak jambi groove
Well apart from the beautiful words of classic literature, we need to dig up the truth that brought the news. Before I continue I want to write custom wither following maxim:
Let mudiki history to upstream
where tersekat perceptivity elakkan
heirdom grandmother who had a first -
same dibuhul, tied together
sebaris not forget that
setitik no missing
the diarah, be the
firm grip night and day
Now we review the meaning of these tombo Minangkabau adat. Tombo also mean the story, the story in the tradition is clearly stated that:
(1). the ancestor of the Minangkabau Maharajo dirajo which is anchored on the Mount Merapi Langgapuri Peak (with the presumption that the island of Sumatra still tertutupi sea) that appear dipermukaan Cuma areas is high. (2) Mobility of the population started from Mount Merapi and then continue down the low kedaerah follow susutnya sea water (earth basentak naiak, langik basentak down) and continue to develop and then divided into three luhak (region) Tanah Datar, Agam, and Lima Puluh. Then to the coast (area Kuantan, Kampar, Jambi) and Pasisia banda sapuluah (now Coastal South).
In my opinion the first points on the news (1) above is the news that a Ngada and tales of the first and perhaps he said at the time berlabuhnya Sutan Marajo dirajo when it floods in the era of Prophet Noah as Does not make sense, because the Prophet Noah only make one boat (ship). If we review the terms of the science of astronomy and geology, that was when Jagad highway because the explosion was tremendous. Initially, the temperature of things including the earth, the sky is very hot, and then freeze the water and the sea recede because most of the water frozen in the poles. And I think that the man (Adam and Eve) is still in heaven or not created. So in short the first points on the news can not be accepted scientifically.
News that the two points I think that is the kingdom of Minangkabau ekspansinya and to the surroundings (including Kuantan, Jambi, and Kampar). Nah! Now it appears a question "the ancestors of the Minangkabau down the mountain Merapi clearly not reasonable, in fact they where?". Before I express my hypothetical explanation, I will cite Buya Hamka passed in the seminar noted in the History of Riau in Riau prakarsai by the University on 20 to 25 May 1975.
Sumatra in the history of the middle period, and some kingdoms, including the Pre Sriwijaya, Sriwijaya, Darmawangsa, Pagarruyung, Temasik, Riau, Lingga, Kandis and Kuantan, Indragiri, Siak Sri Indrapura, and some of the other kingdoms (Hamka passed, 1975) . Not easy for us to know the truth need to historical evidence is strong that whether in the form of inscription, temples, and so forth. Buya Hamka passed in the seminar is only the history of Islam in Central Sumatra and does not criticize in depth about the history of the pre Sriwijaya period, Sriwijaya, Kandis and Kuantan.
According Buya Hamka passed (1975) reviews the history of the Riau seyogyanyalah we insafi that the nation is proof Riau Malay, Riau Malay who bred, or called the Melayu Asli, difficult to find words such as Malay proverb "look for lice in ijuk". Perhaps the native Malay only tinggalsuku-backward tribes who still live in the forest, as Talang mamak and Kubu people. The person named Riau Malay, in the era of greatness Imperium Malay, since Pasai era, the era of Malacca, until the time of Riau including Johor, Malay is not named because of the authenticity of the blood, but has long lived under the patronage of kings pennon Malay.
Even the king itupun many are not native Malay, but Malay dirajakan by. Riau Malay come from tribes throughout the archipelago and the Malay peninsula a strong brave, like a rogue looking for livelihood. They come from Malacca, Johor, from all Semeanjung, Bugis, Bawean island, Minangkabau, Banjar, and the Sulu Islands (now Philippines). From here it is clear that Malay is a person who came and also because it mentioned that the Malays have also come from the Minangkabau. But the questions I "which comes from the Minangkabau people?". Has not been missed.
Now we review the opinion of others about the history of Malay wither site online (http://melayuonline.com/). There is mentioned that the Malay history includes a wide range of dimensions, with the long range. If the kingdom of Kutai considered as the oldest kingdom in the Malay culture, the initial phase is about Malay history to centuries-4 or 5 M. Trace-jekanya can be tracked through the historical, both barupa manuscript, inscription, oral history and artefacts. In the site mentioned that the Malay history is divided into three categories: the history of the kingdom, manuscript history, heritage and history, such as temples, mosques, palaces and tombs.
Then our knowledge of the history of the kingdom in the area of Kuantan. There are two kingdoms, namely the kingdom of the Kingdom of Kandis and Kuantan.
Kandis Kingdom
Not known exactly, when the kingdom Kandis. That, there is the kingdom and the kingdom of the ancient existence precede Kuantan. Country Kertagama in the book, there are the names of areas in Sumatra, including in the kingdom of Majapahit. Kandis is one area that disebut.Ibukota Kandis kingdom is estimated to be in the village Sangau (Kuantan District Mudik) which is now called the Temple. According to the online site Malay temple as proof of the existence of the kingdom during the first Kandis. Place can still be found in ruins of buildings and ancient bricks. Suspected, is the brick ruins of temples of worship. Wither online opinion according to me is not the right temple which is referred to the dock or the port of the Kingdom of Kandis, Kandis Kingdom and the center itself is located in the area of Bukit Bertabuh, who still have not found the location.
Kandis is a kingdom that stands alone, because the area is fertile and spices, like pepper. Not much that can be known about this kingdom Kandis, especially after defeated by Jambi and not known exactly when the attack occurred. Attacks from Bali that is estimated to overthrow the kingdom Kandis. Kandis but does not vanish simply because the kingdom of Kuantan and then show them (wither online).
Kingdom of Kuantan
According to the online story of the Malay kingdom of Kuantan can dirunut travels from the Sapurba. In the journey to bring back Malay nation, the fleet Sapurba diba in Bintan. Here, he wed her son, Sang Nila Utama with putrid kingdom Bintan. Next, the Sapurba return trip kea rah proceed southwest to explore the new area, where the Malay nation. Finally, the fleet arrived in the estuary Sapurba major rivers, the Indragiri River. The entourage Sapurba continue to sail upstream to the river, until a while, rombongannya running out of water, while river water is still salty. Then the Sapurba ordered followers to make a circle large rattan seukuran shield. After the cane is so, the Sapurba put it above the surface of the salty river water, then immerse the feet into the circle rattan. Suddenly, the river water that was changed to fresh salty. Perhaps, the events occurred didaerah Sapat, Indragiri Hilir. The entourage Sapurba take secukupnya water supplies, and then continue with the voyage back menghulu Kuantan River. Finally, they arrived in the kingdom of Kuantan in central Sintuo (village Sangau Now). At that time the kingdom has not Kuantan King. Therefore the arrival Sapurba greeted by happy people Kuantan, both the Council, community leaders, and the proletariat. Then they lift the Sapurba become king, with the requirements, the Sapurba are willing to kill the Naga Sakti Muna who have damage to farm property rakyat.Sang Sapurba then ordered hulubalangnya, Pemasku haunter to kill the dragon with the start sundang (modern swords) of the Sapurba. Commander Permasku haunter successfully kill the dragon, so the Sapurba was a king with a degree in Kuantan "Trinity Tri Buana." With this event, Kuantan has a king again and continue the legacy (quoted from wither online).
Kandis Kingdom according to the information is located in Lubuk Jambi (Kuantan District Mudik), while the Kingdom is based in Kuantan Koto tuo across Teluk Kuantan. Now we return to the question "who Kuantan original / genuine coming from where?". Based on the story above the Kuantan is not derived from native Malay and Minangkabau. Kandis actual existence of the Kingdom at this time until the offspring inherit the legacy-there is still residual Kandis. This fact can be expressed and will be published if you want to know the truth by even Sumatra Riau in general there must be honesty and commitment from the parties related to honestly reveal about the actual Kandis.
Answers questions as brother-sister Singingi Kuantan Students who have in Yogyakarta, that our people are not coming from Kuantan Minangkabau, and not derived from the Malay. According to the actual history of Kandis, is that "Kandis is the oldest kingdom in Sumatra" according to a story from generation to generation among the descendants of the kingdom Kandis Kandis that it has been since the century to 2 BC, long before the kingdom of Kutai, Pagarruyung and other kingdoms. Term in the tombo customary Minagkabau "Mount Merapi of duck eggs, and mountain Singgalang of chicken eggs" in the top of the hill at the highest didaerah Hill Bertabuh not far from the center of the Kingdom of Kandis. So before all the best (not just the story), it is necessary to conduct the research field of Archeology or archeology objects. Hypothetical is that our forefathers it (the Kuantan) the actual start of civilization on the island of Sumatra (which has often changed its name: the island-percha, Swarna Dwipa Island, Gold Island, Island of Andalas, and now the island of Sumatra). Hopefully, this answer can give a picture that we have a culture of its own character.
Hopefully the truth will be established with scientific facts. For the brothers who deepens Sciences Archeology I think a golden opportunity to prove our country's past.
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Yogyakarta, 22 August 2008
Search for Idnetitas Affairs
Author: Pebri Mahmud Al-Hamidi)
) * Post Graduate Student University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Lubuk Jambi