Far before the Netherland colonial came to Indonesia, Indonesian people is a very eductead people. Proves with the development of traditional education that use local font in the whole country, on of them is Minangkabau. Local font of Minangkabau is the adaptation of Arabian font along with the culture of the people there that is brought by the Arabia merchants, and well known with Arab-Melayu font or Arab without marker. Arab-Melayu font is thaught in the traditional Minangkabau education

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... m through mosque. Besides, Arab-Melayu fontis the background of toward the existence of some texts which contains the value of life of Miangkabau people at that time. However, the existence of Arab-Melayu font try to move, especially when the Netherland colonial try to authorize by introducing latin font to Minangkabau people. The hegemony of latin font cause the degradation of Arab-Melayu font, that implicates to the dissapear of some texts like some scripts or memory that is saved in the old Minangkabau people's mind. Other than that, the hegemony of politics that is offered by The Netherland's government caused many Minangkabau scripts become not appropriate to be published and also most of the scripts is voluntary given to the Netherland's government or as a gift. Abstrak Jauh sebelum penjajah Belanda datang ke Indonesia, orang Indonesia adalah orang yang sangat edukatif. Terbukti dengan berkembangnya