People group profile · PG022617
The Tidong of Indonesia
The Tidong of Indonesia, numbering about 34,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Indonesia (Kalimantan).
They are an indigenous people in the Banjar of Kalimantan people cluster of the Malay Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam, and they primarily speak Southern Tidung.
Fast facts
- Country
- Indonesia
- Population
- 34,000
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Banjar of Kalimantan
- Primary language
- Southern Tidung (itd)
- 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
- North Kalimantan province: Atap, Malinau, Mensalong, Nunukan, Pembeliangan, Tarakan, and Tideng Pale towns
Where they live
Gospel status
The Tidong 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 Tidong
- 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
100% adherents
Primary language
Southern Tidung · Austronesian family
80% speak Southern Tidung
Gospel resources in Southern Tidung
- Bible available, published 2021
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories available
Films
- JESUS (Tidung, Southern)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Tidong
- 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 is also reported in 1 other country.
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