People group profile · PG022697
The Pago of Indonesia
The Pago of Indonesia, numbering about 4,400 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an indigenous Papuan-speaking people of North Halmahera, predominantly Christian, whose ancestral territory has been the site of a long-running land-rights dispute with the Gosowong Gold Mine operating there without their consent since 1999.
They are an indigenous people in the Maluku-Northern people cluster of the Malay Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Pagu.
Fast facts
- Country
- Indonesia
- Population
- 4,400
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Maluku-Northern
- Primary language
- Pagu (pgu)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 20% or Greater but Less than 30%
- GSEC ?
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority ?
- Significantly Reached People Group
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia, Asia
- Location
- North Maluku province: Halmahera Utara regency on lower Kao river and west to interior foothills
Where they live
Gospel status
The Pago 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 Pago
- 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
50% adherents
Primary language
Pagu · North Halmahera family
75% speak Pagu
Gospel resources in Pagu
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Pagoe)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Pago
- 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.
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