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Padang is the capital city of West Sumatera. Padang is the one of the most beutiful city does Indonesia have. “Jam Gadang” is icon of Padang City. It’s like Big Ben in London, England. Padang doesn’t heve a “Jam Gadang” only, in Padang we can learn about they culture and the strory about that.

Every countries in this world certainly have a different culture and characteristic about they country. In padang we can see the tradition house of Padang, It’s name “Rumah Gadang”. But we can see the house just in the several place in Padang. Inside the “Rumah Gadang” we can find the traditional clothes does Padang have.

The traditional clothes for man wear Saluak in head. The blouse called Teluk Belanga. And the cloth in the hand is that Kain Songket and the trousers is long. For woman they wear hat is called Bergonjang. The blouse name is Baju Kurung and wear Kain Songket. The diverge cloth in shoulder is that Kain Songket too. The jewelries are the heap necklace, bracelet, and ring. This clothes can use at Minagkabau traditional wedding anniversary. And the traditional of weapon is Karih.
The traditional dance of Padang is Tari Piring. The teenager in thats place like this dance. Inside that plates there are the light candle. And the fire of the candles doesn’t off until the dance is over. Every motion have the definite meaning. For example the eagle to fly, and the motion likes the kid of dove when the bird felt down to the field while gave thanks to Allah SWT.
The dancer wear long dress and cloth for skirt. The potition of the scarf slanting to the right or to the left. For the hair there are te decoration of flowers called Kembang Goyang, because the flowers can moved.

Do you know the tradition Song from West Sumatera ? There are some tradition song from West Sumatra ; Ka Parak Tingga, Paku Gelang, Tak Tontong, Seringgit Dua Kupang, Bareh Solok, Mamandam Raso, Tari Piring, Cubo Ranuangkan, Dayuang Palinggam, Tari Payuang, Denai Sansai, Rang Talu, Jikok Bapisah, Sempaya, and the most popular songs are Ayam den Lapeh, Kambanglah Bungo, Kampuang Nan Jauh di Mato, and so on.

But on September, 30th 2009 the incident in Padang was happen. With 7.6 SR, the earthquacke crush something copeletely in there. The central of earthquacke in Padang City. But the most damage occurred in Padang, Pariaman, and Binjai. The most victim who were dead in Pariaman. The totally of dead are 650 peoples. The building were crush. And a lots of peoples lost they family, the precious things, and house. They difficulty for find some food, drinks, clothes, medicines, fuel, and clean water. In the first week in Padang like as The Dead City. Because the important offices in there were crush. The electric was extinguished.

Indonesia open their relationship to another countries to help in Padang. There are from Russian, Japan, China, Singapore, United States, and so on. They help for volunteers, fund, foods and drinks, medicines, and many more.

For the safe victim in the ruins building, they to suffer broken bones. In fact there are some peoples when their legs pinch in the ruins of builds they cuts of their legs by himself. They do that in order to safe their life.

And now, Padang tried to woke up and begin to build their country. We just can to help them and pray it to the God. We hope Padang can back to stand up again and try to be better than before. And we hope God don’t sending the accident like this again.