The East Indian Muslims of Suriname, numbering approximately 32,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Caribbean people of Indian ancestry whose forebears arrived as indentured laborers from South Asia. They speak the dominant regional languages and maintain cultural traditions influenced by Hindu, Muslim, and broader Indo-Caribbean heritage They are an Indigenous people, with Indo-Caribbean as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Indo-Caribbean people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Sranan Tongo is their primary language.