Editing Matrilineality (section)

==== Indonesia ====
{{Main|Minangkabau people}}
In the [[Minangs|Minangkabau]] matrilineal [[clan]] culture in [[Indonesia]], a person's [[clan]] name is important in their marriage and their other cultural-related events.<ref name="Sanday">{{Cite journal |last=Sanday |first=Peggy Reeves |date=December 2002 |title=Commentary: Matriarchy and Islam Post-9/11: A Report from Indonesia |url=https://web.sas.upenn.edu/psanday/reports/matriarchy-and-islam-post-911-a-report-from-indonesia/ |journal=Anthropology News |volume=43 |issue=9 |pages=7 |doi=10.1111/an.2002.43.9.7}}</ref><ref name=SandayBk>Sanday, Peggy Reeves (2004). ''Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy''. Cornell University Press. {{ISBN|0-8014-8906-7}}. Parts of this book are available online at books.google.com</ref><ref name=Caitlin>Fitzsimmons, Caitlin (21Oct09). http://www.roamingtales.com/2009/10/21/a-matrilineal-islamic-society-in-sumatra/, "A matrilineal, Islamic society in Sumatra". Archived https://archive.today/20130202004556/http://www.roamingtales.com/2009/10/21/a-matrilineal-islamic-society-in-sumatra/ on 2 February 2013.</ref> Two totally unrelated people who share the same clan name can never be married because they are considered to be from the same clan mother (unless they come from distant villages). Likewise, when [[Minangs]] meet total strangers who share the same clan name, anywhere in Indonesia, they could theoretically expect to feel that they are distant relatives.<ref>Sanday 2004, p.67</ref> Minang people do not have a family name or surname; neither is one's important clan name included in one's name; instead one's [[given name]] is the only name one has.<ref>Sanday 2004, p.241</ref>

The [[Minangs]] are one of the world's largest matrilineal societies/cultures/ethnic groups, with a population of 4 million in their home province [[West Sumatra]] in Indonesia and about 4 million elsewhere, mostly in Indonesia. The Minang people are well known within their country for their tradition of matriliny and for their "dedication to Islam" – despite Islam being "supposedly patrilineal".<ref name=Sanday /> This well-known accommodation, between their traditional complex of customs, called [[adat]], and their religion, was actually worked out to help end the Minangkabau 1821–37 [[Padri War]].<ref name=Sanday /> 

The [[Minangkabau people|Minangkabau]] are a prime example of a matrilineal culture with female inheritance.  With Islamic religious background of [[complementarian]]ism and places a greater number of men than women in positions of religious and political power. Inheritance and proprietorship pass from mother to daughter.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Peletz|first1=Michael G.|title=The King Is Dead; Long Live the Queen!|journal=American Ethnologist|date=2005|volume=32|issue=1|pages=39–41|jstor=3805147|doi=10.1525/ae.2005.32.1.39}}</ref>

Besides Minangkabau, several other ethnics in Indonesia are also matrilineal and have similar culture as the Minangkabau. They are Suku Melayu Bebilang, Suku Kubu and Kerinci people. Suku Melayu Bebilang live in Kota Teluk Kuantan, Kabupaten Kuantan Singingi (also known as Kuansing), Riau. They have similar culture as the Minang. Suku Kubu people live in Jambi and South Sumatera. They are around 200 000 people. Suku Kerinci people mostly live in Kabupaten Kerinci, Jambi. They are around 300 000 people.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}