Maantaan Tando Ceremony

Maantaan Tando is a procession pre-wedding in Sumatera Barat, especially in Pariaman. Wedding system in Pariaman is different with the other regions in Sumatera Barat. In Pariaman, there is a tradition that people in Pariaman call it ‘Bajapuik’, whereas that tradition never findin other region.

In ‘Bajapuik’ tradition, the bridegroom ‘is bought’ by the bride with ‘uang japuik’, uang japuik mean some money to buy the bridegroom, the nominal is given by someone status, if his status low, the nominal will small, and when someone status is high the nominal will be big, sometimes, someone who has high position in a big instance, working as a public servant or has a big company or store will be bought by the groom until 50 million.

One of ‘Bajapuik’ procession is ‘Maantaan Tando’. This procession is a form of surrender the money to the bridegroom. In this procession, the brides will be represented by niniak mamak, kapalo mudo and mamak from the brides’ families. They will discussion about how much ‘Uang Japuik’ is, and determine when the party will be hold.

It is just a theory; in fact uang japuik is depending on the bride and groom family. Maanataan tando is an event to get the agreement between bride and groom family. In this event both of the families makes, some debate with special speech it called sambah manyambah.Finally, they will get an agreement.

This pocession is a good event to be eternaled by the people and goverment because it will be damaged by western culture.