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The Upper Baram Kenyah of Indonesia

The Upper Baram Kenyah of Indonesia, numbering approximately 750 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Kenyah Dayak people who migrated from Balungan in Indonesian Borneo to settle the Baram river basin, tracing their leadership lineage to ancestor Tama Bulan Weng, who established the region's first fort at Long Daloh on the Pata River. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Mainstream Kenyah is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Upper Baram Kenyah

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Indonesia
People Cluster: Borneo-Kalimantan
Primary Language(s): Mainstream Kenyah (xkl)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 750
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG022619
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

48%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Mainstream Kenyah
Language Family: Austronesian

76%
%
Kenyah, Mainstream Speakers

Media Resources in Mainstream Kenyah:

Films:
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Bible Resources in Mainstream Kenyah:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Upper Baram Kenyah 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 Upper Baram Kenyah:
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 Upper Baram Kenyah of Indonesia

For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
readRomans 1:19

Pray that God will use testimony of creation to cause those who do not yet know the gospel to long for truth and a relationship with the Author of life.

More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
readRomans 5:11

Pray for the gospel to advance and for more people to be brought into God's family through the reconciliation Jesus offers them.

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
readRomans 6:4

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, God will lead those who might hesitate in getting baptized to trust Him as they obey His command, even when obedience is hard.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
readRomans 6:23

Pray that God will bring people to faith who are excited about the eternal life they have in Christ and will want to cross cultures to share this hope with others.

Kenyah, Upper Baram Across Countries (ROP3 - 104840) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Upper Baram KenyahPG022619Upper Baram KenyahIndonesia750No Longer UnreachedMainstream KenyahProtestantism

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