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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Kinabatangan Sungai of Malaysia

The Kinabatangan Sungai of Malaysia, numbering approximately 18,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a people of Malaysia (Sabah). They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Malaysia
People Cluster: Borneo-Kalimantan
Primary Language(s): Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan (dtb)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 18,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG019338

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

80%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan
Language Family: Austronesian

90%
%
Kadazan, Labuk-Kinabatangan Speakers

Media Resources in Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan:

Films:

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Bible Resources in Labuk-Kinabatangan Kadazan:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Kinabatangan Sungai 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 Kinabatangan Sungai:
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 Kinabatangan Sungai of Malaysia

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
readTitus 3:3

Pray for those who seek worldly pleasures instead of God to flee from sin and choose God’s goodness and lovingkindness by placing their faith in Jesus.

I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
readDaniel 7:13-14

Pray that the gospel will advance so that all peoples will come to know the Son of Man, who has been given dominion and glory and a kingdom, and that they will bow before Him and serve Him forever.

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
readRomans 10:13

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and sometimes have doubts, God will help them remember and trust the power of Jesus to save them from their sins.

So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God who has mercy.
readRomans 9:16

Ask God to raise up people who will trust in His sovereignty as they share the gospel, knowing that it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God who has mercy.

Kinabatangan Sungai Across Countries (ROP3 - 105012) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountry ▼PopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Kinabatangan SungaiPG019338Kinabatangan SungaiMalaysia18,000No Longer UnreachedLabuk-Kinabatangan KadazanSunni Islam

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