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Singapore has very close history with Indonesia, Singapore first President is from Indonesia, West Sumatra (Minang Kabau ethnic) descent. Malaysia first President is also from Minang Kabau descent. Minang Kabau people in Indonesia is also well known as good at politics and business even though the population is small compare to other ethnic.
Yusof bin Ishak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yusof was of Minangkabau descent from his father's side while his mother was a Malay from the Langkat region in Indonesia.[1] His brother, Aziz Ishak, was a Malayan journalist and freedom fighter.
I believe Lee Kuan Yew is also from Indonesia, his Malay language is closer to Indonesian than Malaysian as I heard from his speech. Some people believe that he and his family actually comes from Java.
very interesting.
Minang Kabu people has a story, its very similiar story of Vietnamese people.
The name Minangkabau is thought to be a conjunction of two words, minang ("victorious") and kabau ("buffalo"). There is a legend that the name is derived from a territorial dispute between the Minangkabau and a neighbouring prince. To avoid a battle, the local people proposed a fight to the death between two water buffalo to settle the dispute. The prince agreed and produced the largest, meanest, most aggressive buffalo. The Minangkabau produced a hungry baby buffalo with its small horns ground to be as sharp as knives. Seeing the adult buffalo across the field, the baby ran forward, hoping for milk. The big buffalo saw no threat in the baby buffalo and paid no attention to it, looking around for a worthy opponent. But when the baby thrust his head under the big bull's belly, looking for an udder, the sharpened horns punctured and killed the bull, and the Minangkabau won the contest and the dispute.