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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Mandobo Bawah of Indonesia

The Mandobo Bawah of Indonesia, numbering approximately 23,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a lower-river branch of the Mandobo people between the Kao and Digul rivers in Indonesia's Boven Digoel Regency, practicing patrilineal marriage with pig and shell-money bridewealth, in a region once used as a Dutch colonial penal settlement. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Mandobo Bawah is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Pacific Islander Peoples
Country: Indonesia
People Cluster: New Guinea
Primary Language(s): Mandobo Bawah (bwp)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 23,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG022930
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Mandobo Bawah
Language Family: Nuclear Trans New Guinea

76%
%
Mandobo Bawah Speakers

Media Resources in Mandobo Bawah:

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Bible Resources in Mandobo Bawah:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Mandobo Bawah 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 Mandobo Bawah:
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 Mandobo Bawah of Indonesia

That they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us.
readActs 17:27

Pray that those who don't yet know Christ will search diligently for God and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
readRomans 5:10

Pray that God will remove obstacles to the gospel so that many will see the hope He offers through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, and be transformed from being enemies to being His friends.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.
readPsalm 62:2

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be in awe of Jesus, remembering that He is their rock, their fortress, and their salvation.

And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
read2 Corinthians 12:28

Ask God to raise up believers who will faithfully proclaim the good news and equip others to do the same.

Mandobo Bawah Across Countries (ROP3 - 106234) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Mandobo BawahPG022930Mandobo BawahIndonesia23,000No Longer UnreachedMandobo BawahProtestantism

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