People group profile · PG019289
The Tidung of Malaysia
The Tidung of Malaysia, numbering about 25,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Austronesian coastal people native to Borneo's Tana Tidung and Sesayap River homeland, who spread into Sabah after Sulu Sultanate raids and British colonial rule while keeping a distinct Tidung-Malay identity apart from Sabah's Dayak communities.
They are an indigenous people in the Banjar of Kalimantan people cluster of the Malay Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Northern Tidung.
Fast facts
- Country
- Malaysia
- Population
- 25,000
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Banjar of Kalimantan
- Primary language
- Northern Tidung (ntd)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 15% or Greater but Less than 20%
- GSEC
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Sabah: Beluran, Sandakan, and Tawau districts
Where they live
Gospel status
The Tidung are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 10% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Tidung
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Animism · Ethnoreligion
60% adherents
Primary language
Northern Tidung · Austronesian family
70% speak Northern Tidung
Gospel resources in Northern Tidung
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Tidung
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
Tidong in other countries
The same people (ROP3 110044) is reported in 1 other country.
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