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  • Batak Melayu is the ethnic term in the West Coast region in North Sumatera, especially in Tapanuli Tengah region. Batak Melayu is historic and has its own sociology where this ethnicity was acknowledged to be one of ethnicity in North Sumatera, also known as Pesisir ethnic. Batak Melayu originally from Batak Toba which has widen to North Sumatera including Tapanuli Tengah. During the spread of Islam in Tapanuli region, many of Batak community embraced Islam and chose Melayu to show their Islamic identity. Batak Melayu also possesses cultures that have Batak, Minang, Melayu values and Islamic teachings which make it different from Batak and Melayu cultures and at the same time similar