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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Kluet of Indonesia

The Kluet of Indonesia, numbering approximately 56,000 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are described as a Batak subgroup of South Aceh along the Lawe Kluet River, whose language blends Alas, Aceh, and Minangkabau influences, historically organized as the Kluet kingdom under Acehnese influence, predominantly Muslim while keeping some animist traditions They are an Indigenous people, with Kluet as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Aceh of Sumatra people cluster of the Malay Peoples. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Batak Alas-Kluet is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Indonesia
People Cluster: Aceh of Sumatra
Primary Language(s): Batak Alas-Kluet (btz)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 56,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG022501
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

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Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Batak Alas-Kluet
Language Family: Austronesian

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Batak Alas-Kluet Speakers

Media Resources in Batak Alas-Kluet:

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Bible Resources in Batak Alas-Kluet:

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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): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% 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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There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
readRomans 8:1

Pray that God will reassure those who may be struggling with the cost of following Jesus that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.
readPsalm 19:3

Pray that God will lead them to His Word, and where it is not available, ask that He will raise up those who will produce gospel media in their heart language.

And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
readActs 4:31

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be filled with the Holy Spirit and speak God's Word with boldness, sharing the love of Jesus with those around them.

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.

Kluet Across Countries (ROP3 - 100216) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
KluetPG022501KluetIndonesia56,000Unengaged and UnreachedBatak Alas-KluetSunni Islam

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