A high valley with a lake in it under the biggest volcano of the archipelago, growing rice far above the malaria line and sending cassia bark and forest goods down the Merangin to Jambi.
The Kerinci are their own people with their own chiefs. A fourteenth-century law code on bark from Tanjung Tanah in Kerinci (the Kozok reading, from memory) shows a Malay-writing, law-making highland society a century and a half later; nothing is known for 1200.
Who he is
- Title
- The chiefs of the Kerinci villages
- Since
- not known
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
No source names the holder for any date near 1 January 1200.
Overlord
None named.
What it holds
- The valley's rice and cassia
- The Merangin road down to Jambi
How things stand that morning
Not recorded. A highland world with no state in it.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Thin: later lists and the campaign board's inference.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: Core only.
Sources and studies
- OMNIA board note (a lead only, checked against the sources above)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.