People group profile · PG022965
The Kurima of Indonesia
The Kurima of Indonesia, numbering about 7,400 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a highland Papua people speaking the Kurima dialect of Lower Grand Valley Dani, in mountains first sighted by Westerners in 1938, named in Damal oral tradition as a gathering point for dispersing Papuan ancestors.
They are an indigenous people in the New Guinea people cluster of the Pacific Islander Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Lower Grand Valley Dani.
Fast facts
- Country
- Indonesia
- Population
- 7,400
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- New Guinea
- Primary language
- Lower Grand Valley Dani (dni)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- 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
- Papua province: Ndugu regency, Baliem Grand Valley central highlands; lower gorge
Where they live
Gospel status
The Kurima 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 Kurima
- 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
75% adherents
Primary language
Lower Grand Valley Dani · Nuclear Trans New Guinea family
100% speak Lower Grand Valley Dani
Gospel resources in Lower Grand Valley Dani
- Bible available, published 1994
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Kurima
- 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.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
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