People group profile · PG022772
The Sasak of Indonesia
The Sasak of Indonesia, numbering about 3,905,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are the original Austronesian inhabitants of Lombok in Indonesia, dominated for over a century by Balinese rulers until nineteenth-century Islamic peasant revolts triggered the Dutch conquest of 1894.
They are an indigenous people in the Bali-Sasak people cluster of the Malay Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam, and they primarily speak Sasak.
Fast facts
- Country
- Indonesia
- Population
- 3,905,000
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Bali-Sasak
- Primary language
- Sasak (sas)
- Primary religion
- Sunni Islam
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, Concentrated CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia, Asia
- Location
- West Nusa Tenggara province: Lombok island
Where they live
Gospel status
The Sasak 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 but there has been initial or concentrated church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years Concentrated Church Planting
Next steps for the Sasak
- 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
Sasak · Austronesian family
100% speak Sasak
Gospel resources in Sasak
- Bible available, published 2007
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- Today's Sasak Version, 2007 · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Sasak
- 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.
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
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