There was a time when the North Sumatran province was divided in two kingdoms. The kingdoms were East Kingdom and West Kingdom. One day the king of East Kingdom married the younger sister of the West Kingdom's king.

Several years afterwards, a baby girl was born and given the name of ‘Dayang Bandir’, seven years afterwards were born a baby boy who was named Sandean Raja. When they were still children, their father died. The death of the East Kingdom's king left the throne of the East Kingdom vacant.

Due to the capability reason, Sandean Raja who was still a child could not replace the position of his father as the king. Then the session of the royal palace appointed his uncle Kareang to control the kingdom. Dayang Bandir, who had the suspicious mind of him, rescued heirloom objects in order to save them not to fall to her uncle's hand. She apparently knew that her uncle was not a good king.

Long time ago in the Batam island countryside, there was a village where an orphan named Ma Bongsu lived. She was a maid servant of Mak* Piah. Mak Piah had a daughter named Siti Mayang. One day, Ma Bongsu washed clothes in a river, when suddenly she screamed in fear, “Snake…!” when seeing a snake approached. But apparently the snake seemed not ferocious, he swam here and there while showing the wound on his back. Ma Bongsu summoned up courage took the hurt snake and brought him home.

She treated the snake very well to cure the wound. Later, the snake was recovered from his wound. He became healthy and bigger. His skin peeled off little by little. Ma Bongsu picked up the peeled off snake skin, and burned it. Amazingly… every time she burned it, the big smoke emerged. If the smoke headed to a rich country, then suddenly there were heaps of diamond gold and money. If the smoke headed to the more developed country, various useful tools flowed to her. And when the smoke headed to Banda Lampung city, Lampung tapis clothes** came surrounding her.