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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Muyu South of Indonesia

The Muyu South of Indonesia, numbering approximately 4,600 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an indigenous people of Indonesia (Papua). They mostly adhere to Protestantism and South Muyu is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Muyu South

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Pacific Islander Peoples
Country: Indonesia
People Cluster: New Guinea
Primary Language(s): South Muyu (kts)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 4,600
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG023052
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

64%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: South Muyu
Language Family: Nuclear Trans New Guinea

100%
%
Muyu, South Speakers

Media Resources in South Muyu:

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Bible Resources in South Muyu:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Muyu South 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 Muyu South:
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 Muyu South of Indonesia

For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.
readEphesians 5:8

Pray that those who are lost will turn from the darkness they are walking in and embrace the light, becoming children of light who bear fruit in every good work.

The LORD watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
readPsalm 146:9

Pray for God to watch over people, wherever they are, and cause them to meet believers who will share the gospel with them clearly and lovingly.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
readPhilippians 2:5-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will imitate His humility in all they do.

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.

Muyu, South Across Countries (ROP3 - 115202) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Muyu SouthPG023052Muyu SouthIndonesia4,600No Longer UnreachedSouth MuyuProtestantism

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