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The Lamma of Indonesia

The Lamma of Indonesia, numbering approximately 16,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Papuan-language community of western Pantar Island in Indonesia's Alor Archipelago, speaking the Lamma dialect of Western Pantar amid a region otherwise surrounded by unrelated Austronesian languages. They mostly adhere to Animism and Lamma is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Indonesia
People Cluster: Flores-Sumba-Alor
Primary Language(s): Lamma (lev)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 16,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG022760
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

80%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Lamma
Language Family: Timor-Alor-Pantar

100%
%
Pantar, Western Speakers

Media Resources in Lamma:

Films:

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Bible Resources in Lamma:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Lamma 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 Lamma:
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 Lamma of Indonesia

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
readJohn 3:19

Pray that God will have mercy on those who love the darkness they are walking in and turn from their sin to faith in Christ.

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
readLuke 13:3

Pray that the lost will repent and believe the gospel, for without it, they will perish.

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.
readHebrews 10:26

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will live with reverence for God and not deliberately keep sinning after they receive the knowledge of the truth.

And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
readMark 5:20

Pray that God will bring people who appear beyond hope to faith in Jesus and that they will then go and tell others of the marvelous things He has done.

Lamma Across Countries (ROP3 - 105623) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress Index ▼LanguageReligion
LammaPG022760LammaIndonesia16,500No Longer UnreachedLammaAnimism

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