People group profile · PG022698
The Patani-Maba of Indonesia
The Patani-Maba of Indonesia, numbering about 12,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Indonesia.
They are an indigenous people in the Maluku-Northern people cluster of the Malay Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam, and they primarily speak Patani.
Fast facts
- Country
- Indonesia
- Population
- 12,500
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Maluku-Northern
- Primary language
- Patani (ptn)
- Primary religion
- Sunni Islam
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- No Known Evangelicals
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia, Asia
- Location
- North Maluku province: 9 villages on Halmahera island along the west coast
Where they live
Gospel status
The Patani-Maba 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 Patani-Maba
- 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
88% adherents
Primary language
Patani · Austronesian family
100% speak Patani
Gospel resources in Patani
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Patani-Maba
- 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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