Leadership in Minangkabau’s Proverbs

Abstract

This paper discusses a leadership character found in Minangkabau's proverbs. The leadership character is the one built up by each individual person for each one is potential to become a leader. At the Andalas university, all academic staffs are expected to have a pure Andalasian character. The pure character must become an identity of all academic staffs of Andalas University projected to become a leader. An anthropological linguistic approach is applied in order to elaborate the leadership character found in Minangkabau's proverbs. This research is descriptive one. Three types of method are employed to conduct this research one out of which is a strategic step of a research. The three methods are collecting data, analyzing data, and displaying the result of data analysis. The data collection is done under observational method. The analyzing data is done under qualitative method stressing a comprehension over a problem deeply, and the result of the data analysis is presented in an informal method. Based upon the research already done, it is found that the leadership character existing in the Minangkabau's proverbs is the identity covering socialism, humanity, piety, optimism, tolerance, and realism. The presence a charismatic leader in a small or a big community is needed as to materialize tranquility, equality, justice, and life expectancy fitting the cultural value in order realize the harmony in a society.