The meaning behind the disobedient Malin Kundang story
Hello friends. Have you ever heard the story entitled “Malin Kundang”? If so, what happened to the Malin Kundang, if anyone has never heard of Malin Kundang’s story. So I will tell you again. This story is a folk tale from Indonesia, does anyone know where it came from? yes this story is in West Sumatra, the area of the Minangkabau people.
This story begins in the area of the earth Minangkabau, an area known for its cuisine called the Padang restaurant both in Indonesia and abroad, apart from being famous for its food, the Minangkabau people are also famous for a tradition called “Marantau”, this marantau is usually done by Minangkabau men who have grown up and are independent and maybe from this story you know why many Minangkabau people go abroad. Then from this story our friends take care of our parents who have raised us. Next, let’s tell the story. Once upon a time there was a mother with only a boy who she loved and loved, this boy’s mother lived alone with the child whose father had left her. Then live in distress with the pressure to fill the stomach and work hard to meet the needs of daily life.Then one day Malin Kundang got an illness that made her very worried about her, the mother took great care of her because she was the only child who would later be proud of her and take care of her. later in his old age.
Then days have passed, Malin begins to recover and be healthy, and makes the mother very happy and loves her even more, when Malin Kundang reaches a ripe age and is able to be independent, then Malin Kundang asks for his blessing to allow him to migrate to improve his life that will be came, and happened a few days before Malin Kundang saw a ship that docked to the coast of the Minangkabau area. But before the blessing of Malin Kundang to go wandering, it was seen in the look on the face of the Malin Kundang mother that she was very sad because she would be left behind by her only child. When the ship leaves the coast of Minangkabau, the mother prays crying so that the child will be successful, good and safe until the destination, seeing her child struggling to free the economy of the mother who has struggled to raise him, then every day in the morning and evening the mother always looks at the sea. are you there okay and crying waiting for him to return to his hometown.
For a long time waiting for the child to return home and want to see how the child is now, but on every ship that pulls over on the coast never sees and gives answers to how the child is out there, of the many questions and the desire to find out, his situation is now splashed one of the lights of the existence of Malin Kundang from one of the ship’s crew who took him to migrate said that the condition of Malin Kundang was very advanced, he had many ships and became a very glass merchant and also had a beautiful wife.
Because the words of a ship crew carrying Malin Kundang said good things to Malin Kundang, the more excited the mother is to always ask about the situation and see her child coming home. At all times from morning and evening the mother always looks out to sea and prays crying “when will you come home, my child”, then several days, months and years pass, the mother’s condition is getting old and old, walking bent over, and interrupting the changing of the day. The mother saw the ship from a distance which looked very majestic like a king’s ship. The mother walked, leaning over to the beach to see if a child had arrived, and at once the ship pulled up to see a pair of very well-dressed young children descending the ship. Then the mother’s heart beat that it was her child who had come and tried to get closer through the crowd so that they could see more closely that it was my child, when the mother saw that it was indeed her child, the mother immediately hugged the child who came, with saying “Malin, malin, my son, my son has come” then the malin was surprised that the one who hugged him was his mother, but the wife of Malin Kundang was seen spitting with the phrase “this is your mother, you said your mother was the same as me” immediately Malin released a hug with the word “I am not your son, go away” when he saw that the mother tried to hold his leg but what he got was a kick and the mother fell into the sand and fainted for some time. The people who saw it felt sad, so they dispersed themselves. Then the mother woke up from her fainting, the mother saw the surrounding quiet and she tried to look at the sea, it was seen that the ship from Malin Kundang had moved away from the sea. Then the mother held her ladder facing the sky and prayed while crying “oh my god if she is not my son then forgive me for my actions, and if it is my son Malin Kundang, I ask for your justice, my god” suddenly from the sky turned black and a storm broke out then the ship was too. destroyed by the storm and dragged by the waves to the shoreline and then his body stiffened and helped and turned into stone both the ship and the malin kundang and finished.
From the story of Malin Kundang, we can get the conclusion that we are a child so you will still be a child beside your mother and father, and don’t worry about what we get because in everything we do there lies the prayer of a mother who always prays for her child to always be congratulations and good for you.
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