People group profile · PG019338
The Kinabatangan Sungai of Malaysia
The Kinabatangan Sungai of Malaysia, numbering about 18,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a people of Malaysia (Sabah).
They are an indigenous people in the Borneo-Kalimantan people cluster of the Malay Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam, and they primarily speak Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan.
Fast facts
- Country
- Malaysia
- Population
- 18,000
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Borneo-Kalimantan
- Primary language
- Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan (dtb)
- Primary religion
- Sunni Islam
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10%
- GSEC
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Sabah: Beluran, Kinabatangan, and Sandakan districts
Where they live
Gospel status
The Kinabatangan Sungai are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 5% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Kinabatangan Sungai
- 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
Sunni Islam · Islam
80% adherents
Primary language
Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan · Austronesian family
90% speak Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan
Gospel resources in Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan
- Bible available, published 1996
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Kinabatangan Sungai
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
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