this regency was founded to include a collection of several villages that existed in the region luhak agam, during the reign of the dutch east indies. bukittinggi was named as the regency capital at that time. after bukittinggi was created as an independent city outside of the regency, based on government regulation no. 8 of 1998, on 7 january 1998, the agam regency's capital was officially moved to lubuk basung.