People group profile · PG022648
The Fordat of Indonesia
The Fordat of Indonesia, numbering about 69,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Austronesian people of Fordata Island in Indonesia's Tanimbar archipelago, descended from Melanesian-Papuan populations overlaid by Austronesian migrants roughly 4,000 years ago, organized into patrilineal wife-giver and wife-taker kin groups.
They are an indigenous people in the Maluku-Southern people cluster of the Malay Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam, and they primarily speak Fordata.
Fast facts
- Country
- Indonesia
- Population
- 69,000
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Maluku-Southern
- Primary language
- Fordata (frd)
- Primary religion
- Sunni Islam
- 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
- Maluku province: southeast, 30 villages; north archipelago on Fordata, Larat, and Molu-Maru islands; northwest, Yamdena island west coast, Seira island; also Jakarta, other cities
Where they live
Gospel status
The Fordat 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 Fordat
- 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
Fordata · Austronesian family
76% speak Fordata
Gospel resources in Fordata
- Bible available, published 2016
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Fordata)
Bibles
- Fordata: Surat Ralan na'a Vaidida NT · video, audio, text
- Seira Book of Mark · video, audio
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Fordat
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
- 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.
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