When examining the development of the city of Bukittinggi administratively, we try to invite readers to know the history of the city's anniversary. It began with Tuanku Nan Tuo from Koto Tuo Balai Gurah, who was a follower of Sheikh Burhanuddin or Tuanku Ulakan. He saw that the increasingly active trade in the interior of West Sumatra was starting to become worrying. In the process of strengthening the trade networks, the area, later called Bukittinggi, took on an increasingly strategic role and function. The structures that supported the clergy, merchants and surau movements were increasingly intertwined here.
But this fervor in religious life was not matched by the safety of the trading journey, although both were concomitant processes. Towards the end of the XVIII century the interior of Minangkabau experienced a change in trade patterns. New commodities, namely cassia vera, coffee and so on, began to become important.
