The Pass Valley Yaly of Indonesia

The Pass Valley Yaly of Indonesia, numbering approximately 8,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Yali highland people of Yahukimo Regency whose name means people from where the sun rises, first reached by outside missionaries only in the 1960s and 1970s, an encounter that ended long-standing intervillage feuds and ancestral warfare traditions. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Pass Valley Yali is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Yaly, Pass Valley

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Pacific Islander Peoples
Country: Indonesia
People Cluster: New Guinea
Primary Language(s): Pass Valley Yali (yac)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 8,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG023097
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

50%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Pass Valley Yali
Language Family: Nuclear Trans New Guinea

100%
%
Yali, Pass Valley Speakers

Media Resources in Pass Valley Yali:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in Pass Valley Yali:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Pass Valley Yaly 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 Pass Valley Yaly:
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 Pass Valley Yaly of Indonesia

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God".
readRomans 3:10-11

Pray that God will have mercy on those living in broken relationship with Him, and that He will bring many to surrender and repentance at the throne of grace.

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
readPsalm 8:1

Pray that those who have yet to believe will soon recognize the majesty of God's name and raise their voices in praise to the Lord Almighty.

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
readIsaiah 26:3

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, the Lord will keep them in perfect peace as they trust in Him.

He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
readJohn 1:7

Pray that God will raise up witnesses to testify about Jesus so that all might believe, knowing that He is light and in Him there is no darkness at all.

Yali, Pass Valley Across Countries (ROP3 - 110951) reported in the following countries:

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