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A Rumah Gadang serves as a residence, a hall for family meetings, and for ceremonial activities. In the matrilineal Minangkabau society, the Rumah Gadang is owned by the women of the family who live there; ownership is passed from mother to daughter. The houses have a dramatic curved roof structure with multi-tiered, upswept gables.
The bale ("meeting hall"), rumah ("house"), and sopo ("rice barn") are the three main building types common to the different Batak groups. The rumah has traditionally been a large house in which a group of families lives communally. During the day, the interior is a shared living space, and at night, cloth or matting drapes provide families ...
St Vincent de Paul's Hospital (Indonesian: Rumah Sakit Katolik St. Vincentius a Paulo), or popularly known by its acronym as RKZ (Dutch: St. Vincentius a Paulo Roomsch Katholiek Ziekenhuis, lit. 'St Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Hospital'), is a large Catholic hospital in Surabaya , Indonesia .