Migration has a very long history in Malay Archipelago. It is not just about movement, but also about the inter-connectedness of place of origin and place of destination. This interconnectivity can also be seen as threads, chains,anchors and umbilical links. In this paper we look at migration and spread of pantun in Malay Archipelago from a historical perspective. So far, there has been no study on the implications of continuous population movement on this. But, it is this connectivity that accounts not only for the prolonged Malay cultural contact and civilization, but also the open-mind of the Malays, and thus helped to bolster the pluralist or mixed pantun that we see now. In this paper, the movement of local people is linked to their direct and indirect contribution to the spread of Malay, Javanese, Minangkabau, Banjarese and other pantuns. Historically, the vast bodies of water, including the Malacca Straits, Java Seas, Sunda Straits and Lombok Straits, are not merely water spaces rich in fish, but also highways and sea-lanes where the peoples moved from one island to the other, but also local pantun came into contact with that from beyond. In other words, seas and rivers in the region had played an equally important role in the history of Malay civilization as the Ganges and Huangho in the early civilization of India and China. They are the lifelines of the people. It is the openness that derived from the connectivity had made Malays able to deal with pantun from Indonesia, Singapore,Brunei and elsewhere in peaceful and meaningful ways. It is also this connectivity that accounts for the wide array of pantun cultures that have a distinctive regional lineage or DNA. In other words, it is the mobility of people within the region also that helps to spread and make it more widely distributed,popular and now ever lasting. As the mobility of people has increased because of colonialism, capitalist labor market and political reasons in the 19th century, we see multidimensional and multivariate nature of population movement in the region,whether they are voluntary or involuntary, short distance, long distance, short-term or long-term. Retrospectically, Malay Peninsular had “open door policy” for all the wiling immigrants as she had a huge demand for labor to help to accelerate the opening up and development of the country. As it is, the past was indeed the golden age of pantun development in the Malay Archipelago which is heterodox, plural and diverse in nature.