People group profile · PG023019
The Ormu of Indonesia
The Ormu of Indonesia, numbering about 850 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Austronesian-speaking coastal enclave of Jayapura Bay in Papua, Indonesia, part of a small cluster of Austronesian communities amid an otherwise overwhelmingly non-Austronesian Papuan coastline.
They are an indigenous people in the Malay people cluster of the Malay Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Ormu.
Fast facts
- Country
- Indonesia
- Population
- 850
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Malay
- Primary language
- Ormu (orz)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 10% or Greater but Less than 15%
- GSEC ?
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority ?
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia, Asia
- Location
- Papua province: Jayapura regency north coast, Ormu Besar and Ormu Kecil villages
Where they live
Gospel status
The Ormu 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 Ormu
- 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
85% adherents
Primary language
Ormu · Austronesian family
75% speak Ormu
Gospel resources in Ormu
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings 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 Ormu
- 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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