People group profile · PG022819
The Kioko of Indonesia
The Kioko of Indonesia, numbering about 1,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a small Austronesian-speaking Islamic island community, historically inland people who were relocated toward coastal areas by Indonesian resettlement programs.
They are an indigenous people in the New Guinea people cluster of the Pacific Islander Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam, and they primarily speak Kioko.
Fast facts
- Country
- Indonesia
- Population
- 1,500
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- New Guinea
- Primary language
- Kioko (ues)
- 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
- Southeast Sulawesi province: north Buton regency, Bonegunu and Kambowa sub-districts, east central Buton island
Where they live
Gospel status
The Kioko 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 Kioko
- 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
Kioko · Austronesian family
76% speak Kioko
Gospel resources in Kioko
- 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 Kioko
- 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.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
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