The Indonesians of Hong Kong

The Indonesians of Hong Kong, numbering approximately 140,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Austronesian ethnic community whose identity is shaped by their shared history and culture on the islands of Indonesia. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Indonesian is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Hong Kong
People Cluster: Malay
Primary Language(s): Indonesian (ind)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 140,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG050589
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

83%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Indonesian
Language Family: Austronesian

100%
%
Indonesian Speakers

Media Resources in Indonesian:

Films:
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JESUSView Film
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MagdalenaView Film
The SaviorView Film

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Indonesians are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Indonesians:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Indonesians of Hong Kong

Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
readGenesis 22:8

Pray that God will open the ears of those who are lost to understand and believe that only shed blood takes away sin and that, like Abraham, they will believe that God Himself provides the lamb for the burnt offering, who is Jesus the final, perfect sacrifice.

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts!
readPsalm 96:8

Pray for people here to humbly give God the glory due His name.

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
readRomans 8:38-39

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will have confidence in their salvation, knowing that nothing can separate them from the One who conquered death and loves them as His children.

And he said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."
readLuke 10:2

Ask God to send out laborers into His harvest field, raising up believers from around the world to go and proclaim the kingdom of God with those who need to hear it.

Indonesian Across Countries (ROP3 - 114115) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
All

8 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountry ▼PopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
IndonesiansIndonesiansUnited States79,500No Longer UnreachedIndonesianSunni Islam
IndonesiansIndonesiansSingapore200,000No Longer UnreachedIndonesianSunni Islam
IndonesiansIndonesiansNetherlands158,000Engaged yet UnreachedIndonesianSunni Islam
IndonesiansIndonesiansMalaysia344,000No Longer UnreachedIndonesianSunni Islam
IndonesiansIndonesiansHong Kong140,000No Longer UnreachedIndonesianSunni Islam
IndonesiansIndonesiansChina11,500No Longer UnreachedIndonesianProtestantism
IndonesiansIndonesiansCanada17,000Unengaged and UnreachedIndonesianSunni Islam
IndonesiansIndonesiansAustralia30,000No Longer UnreachedIndonesianSunni Islam

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