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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Tajio of Indonesia

The Tajio of Indonesia, numbering approximately 16,000 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a Celebic-speaking people of the Tomini Gulf coast in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, whose Islamic heritage traces to 17th-century Mandar nobility and whose customary monikah tradition emphasizes brotherhood and unity. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Tajio is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Tajio

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Indonesia
People Cluster: Kaili-Tomini of Sulawesi
Primary Language(s): Tajio (tdj)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 16,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG022871
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

80%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Tajio
Language Family: Austronesian

75%
%
Tajio Speakers

Media Resources in Tajio:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Tajio:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2015 Yayasan Suluh Insan Lestari✓✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Tajio bible at Bible.com

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Explore Lostness and Next Steps

Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Expanding Unreached People Group, (LPI: 2), 0.5% or Greater but Less than 2% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), 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

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Pray specifically for the Tajio of Indonesia

You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.
readPsalm 65:9

Give thanks for God's provision in nature, and pray that those who don't know Him will recognize His hand, desire to know their Creator, and hear the truth that Jesus is the solution to the world's greatest need.

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
readLamentations 3:23-23

Pray that they will have hope in the Lord, knowing that His compassions never fails and that His mercies are new every morning.

And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
readRomans 10:15

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be eager to proclaim the good news of peace, knowing that the Lord has called them to this task.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
read1 Corinthians 15:10–11

Pray that God's people will preach the message of Jesus' death and resurrection and that it will spread among the lost through the selfless witness of believers.

Tajio Across Countries (ROP3 - 109682) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
TajioPG022871TajioIndonesia16,000Unengaged and UnreachedTajioSunni Islam

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