The Batin are a sub-group of
Malay people that inhabits the interior parts of
Jambi province
Jambi is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the east coast of central Sumatra and spans to the Barisan Mountains in the west. Its capital and largest city is Jambi. The province has a land area of 50,160.05 km2, and a sea area of 3, ...
There are approximately 72,000 Batin living in the interior of south-central Sumatra. They speak a dialect of the
Jambi variant of
Malay, but the accent is similar to
Minangkabau language.
The Batin are predominantly
Muslim, but have a
matrilineal
Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their matriline – their mother's lineage – and which can involve the inheritance ...
kinship system, which is similar to Minangkabau than to Jambi Malays.
References
Further reading
* Nuh, M. Imran (2000) ''Budaya masyarakat suku bangsa Batin di Kabupaten Bungo Tebo, Propinsi Jambi'' Proyek Pengkajian dan Pembinaan Nilai-Nilai Budaya Daerah, Direktorat Sejarah dan Nilai Tradisional, Direktorat Jenderal Kebudayaan, Jakarta;
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Indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia
Ethnic groups in Indonesia
Ethnic groups in Sumatra
Muslim communities of Indonesia
Malay people