People group profile · PG022479
The Aneuk Jamee of Indonesia
The Aneuk Jamee of Indonesia, numbering about 75,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Minangkabau-descended community of Aceh's western and southern coasts that emerged through centuries of migration, intermarriage, and cultural blending with neighboring Acehnese populations.
They are an indigenous people in the Aceh of Sumatra people cluster of the Malay Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam, and they primarily speak Minangkabau.
Fast facts
- Country
- Indonesia
- Population
- 75,000
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Aceh of Sumatra
- Primary language
- Minangkabau (min)
- Primary religion
- Sunni Islam
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Aceh province: Singkil, South Aceh, Southwest Aceh, and Simeulue regencies
Where they live
Gospel status
The Aneuk Jamee are Engaged yet Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, but there are sustained efforts to establish self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. In GSEC terms, this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Aneuk Jamee
- Continue prayer and fasting for this group
- Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
- Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people
Primary religion
Sunni Islam · Islam
99% adherents
Primary language
Minangkabau · Austronesian family
100% speak Minangkabau
Gospel resources in Minangkabau
- Bible available, published -
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Minangkabau)
Bibles
- Today's Minang Version, 2010 · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Aneuk Jamee
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- 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.
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