thumb|right|A balairung in Matur A balairung is a village hall of the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra, Indonesia. It has a similar architectural form to the , the domestic architecture of the Minangkabau people. Whereas a is a proper building, the is a pavilion-like structure used solely for holding a consensus decision-making process in the Minang society.
thumb|right|A balairung in Matur A balairung is a village hall of the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra, Indonesia. It has a similar architectural form to the , the domestic architecture of the Minangkabau people. Whereas a is a proper building, the is a pavilion-like structure used solely for holding a consensus decision-making process in the Minang society.
==Etymology== According to the Minangkabau Dictionary, a is a building where a decision-making consensus is held, led by the chief () of the adat society (). is derived from the words balai ("pavilion") and rung ("building"), referring to the traditional pavilion-like wooden architecture of the building.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).