Lake Maninjau which famous due to its scenic beauty and mild climate has an area of 99.5 km², and being approximately 16 km long and 7 km wide with average depth is 105 m, along with a maximum depth of 165 m. Most of the people who live around Lake Maninjau are ethnically Minangkabau with the culture of matrilineal which believes that property and land should passing down from mother to daughter, while religious and political affairs are the province of men.
The Minangkabau are strongly Islamic which combine with their ethnic tradition called adat derived from both Animistic and Hindu beliefs which already occurred before the arrival of Islam. The present relationship between Islam and adat is described in the saying "tradition [adat] founded upon Islamic law, Islamic law founded upon the Qur'an" (adat basandi syara', syara' basandi Kitabullah).
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