Law No. 6 of 2014 concerning Villages provides opportunities for indigenous communities to form indigenous village governments. Nagaris have an established government system, and yet it is getting blurry and dysfunctional institutionally as rules and regulations concerning village governments change. This study aims to explore and rediscover the nagari government models according to the Minangkabau customs. Data were collected with a mixedmethod approach, including survey, observation, interview, and focus group discussion (FGD) methods. This study found that, first, there are two nagari government models in the Minangkabau customs, namely the aristocratic model and the democratic model. Second, the cultural identity of the Minangkabau society is reflected in the concept of banagari, as the traditional system and the government system as an autonomous and independent entity. Third, the nagari government system accommodates two systems that are running simultaneously, namely the state government system and the indigenous government system, in the context of banagari life by using a system that divides the government into three branches, namely an executive, a legislature, and a judiciary.

Novel Warisan with a Minangkabau social background that tells the story of a dispute over inheritance. In this case, the novel is analyzed by a genetic structuralism approach that analyzes the structure of the story and relates it to the social structure of the community, then reveals the author's worldview that it reflects. This study concluded that Warisan's novel by Chairul Harun reflected the worldview of the author as a member of the Minangkabau community who had changed. Changes seen in the patterns of behavior and actions of the people are no longer in line with the Minangkabau philosophy, namely Basandi Syarak Customary, Syarak Basandi Kitabullah. Changes are caused by the influence of colonialization and modernization. The world view is the collective mind, in this case the Minangkabau educated group.

The plurality of Indonesia with more than 600 ethnics is a great wealth but has not been adequately rewarded. Various political, legal, and socio-cultural events have resulted in the degradation of diversity from a colorful mosaic to a blur. This article analyzes the discourse of ‘return to nagari’ based on texts of national commitments and policies on decentralization, West Sumatra’s local policies on the lowest government ‘nagari’, and public responses on them. The methods had been used are literature study and field research, which are analyzed based on the technique of discourse analysis which included text, context, and social practice. The findings are the policy on decentralization is still inconsistent, and the construction of the regional government’s policy based on local culture has not been ideal and operational formulated yet. In fact, it is not easy to return to indigenous culture as roots the Beauty of Indonesia’s Multiculturalism. This finding reflects the critical implication of the discursive practice that shows the awareness of actor’s membership in their culture that leads them to make clear cultural-political attitudes in relation to the state. The position of their cultural traditions is threatened and our position is to mobilize them to revive, maintain, keep, consolidate and revitalize their cultural identity.