Masyarakat Minangkabu dewasa ini mengalami perubahan yang terlihat pada peran dan fungsi keluarga matrilinial. Fokus tujuan penelitian adalah menganalisis perubahan keluarga Minangkabau dalam perspektif teori feminisme dan teori kritis. Metode dalam penelitian ini adalah expost facto. Metode expost facto menjelaskan hubungan sebab akibat dalam suatu peristiwa dengan kenyataan. Analisis data dalam penelitian menggunakan buku, jurnal dan dokumen berdasarkan observasi di lapangan dan data diperoleh melalui studi pustaka. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa di era digital ada perbedaan keluarga tradisional Minangkabau dan keluarga modern Minangkabau. Arus globalisasi berubah terdapat pada peran keluarga Minangkabau. Realitas kehidupan institusi dan fungsi keluarga Minangkabau mengalami perubahan dalam pelaksanaan peran. Relasi keluarga Minangkabau termasuk kuat, akan tetapi peran ninik mamak terhadap keponakan mengalami perubahan dalam realitas kehidupan.   Minangkabau society today is experiencing changes that can be seen in the roles and functions of the matrilineal family. The focus of the research objective is to analyze changes in the Minangkabau family in the perspective of feminism theory and critical theory. The method in this research is ex post facto. The expost facto method explains the causal relationship in an event with reality. Data analysis in the study used books, journals and documents based on field observations and data obtained through literature study. The results show that in the digital era there are differences between the traditional Minangkabau family and the modern Minangkabau family. The current of globalization has changed in the role of the Minangkabau family. The reality of institutional life and the function of the Minangkabau family has changed in the implementation of roles. Minangkabau family relations are strong, but the role of ninik mamak towards nephews has changed in the reality of life.

The focus of this research is on how the position of competitiveness of Indonesian rubber exports among ASEAN countries and the dominant factors causing the competitiveness of Indonesian rubber exports experienced a downward. Approach to measuring rubber export competitiveness uses the Lafay Index, and factors that affect the competitiveness using the Diamond model by using panel data analysis method. The results show that there has been a decline in the competitiveness of Indonesia's rubber exports to ASEAN countries, the greatest decline in competitiveness that occurred in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. Factors that affect Indonesia's export competitiveness that is more dominant are a foreign direct investment, price levels, and interest rates. FDI should be directed at improving the quality of export products following the quality of ISNR and upgrading the quality of rubber export products from SIT 20, and directly more beneficial for the manufacture of goods for final consumers.

Abstract. The focus of this research to investigate the women who participate to trade in regional market. It concerns with entrepreneur spirit among Minangkabau societies and explores the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic empowerment either locally and nationally. The presence of women traders is an incubator entrepreneur spirit for next generation. It also contributes to the economic empowerment of West Sumatra in particular and the national. Model development of entrepreneurship spirit in starting a small business and acted by an individual (oneman enterprise), and then put family (family enterprise), evolving toward small companies (small scale enterprise), medium-scale enterprises (medium scale enterprise), and the company (big scale enterprise).

The aim of this project was to analyze the meaning of the creative economy in the Minangkabau community in the tourist destination area of West Sumatra. This research uses a descriptive qualitative approach. This research was from the province of West Sumatra. Data collection by observation, Focus Group Discussion (FGD), and in-depth interviews. The results showed that the creative economy had created economic added value, increased tourism, and strengthened local culture. Economic actors' actions in tourist destination areas prioritize rational economic actions and do not consider economic motives. The creative economy is not influenced by local habits or culture in taking action so that economic actors prioritize earning profits. The meaning of the Minangkabau community's creative economy in the tourist destination area is action prioritizing profit, action-oriented towards prospects, the action being accessible to all levels, action prioritizing opportunities, and actions have attractiveness and habits. It is shown that these creative economic actions tend to ignore the socio-cultural elements of local products. Cultural values drive the development of the creative industry in West Sumatra. The attractiveness and habits of local tourists and tourists from mancanagara (foreign tourists) become capital and action in the creative economy.