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The Southeast Babar of Indonesia

The Southeast Babar of Indonesia, numbering approximately 5,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Austronesian people of Babar Island in Indonesia's Maluku Islands, descended from Australoid inhabitants mixed with Austronesian migrants around 1000 BC, who lived in cliff-top fortress villages until Dutch authorities forced coastal relocation. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Southeast Babar is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Babar Tenggara

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Indonesia
People Cluster: Maluku-Southern
Primary Language(s): Southeast Babar (vbb)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 5,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG022628
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

55%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Southeast Babar
Language Family: Austronesian

100%
%
Babar, Southeast Speakers

Media Resources in Southeast Babar:

Films:

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Bible Resources in Southeast Babar:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Southeast Babar 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 Southeast Babar:
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 Southeast Babar of Indonesia

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.

Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
readPsalm 96:3

Pray for people to hear and believe the good news of Jesus and joyfully share it with their family and friends.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
readPsalm 51:10

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will quickly repent when they sin and walk with clean hearts and right spirits as they grow in their relationship with the Lord.

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
readActs 17:29

Pray that God will send out laborers to tell people of the one true God and, as the good news is shared, bring about repentance and belief as they turn from idols and follow Jesus.

Babar, Southeast Across Countries (ROP3 - 100693) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguage ▼Religion
Southeast BabarPG022628Southeast BabarIndonesia5,000No Longer UnreachedSoutheast BabarProtestantism

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