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The Lampung Pubian of Indonesia

The Lampung Pubian of Indonesia, numbering approximately 113,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an interior Lampung people of southern Sumatra organized through the Pubian Telu Suku clan tradition and associated with the Pepadun cultural system, maintaining a distinct identity within the broader Lampung community. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Lampung Api is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Lampung Pubian

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Indonesia
People Cluster: Lampung of Sumatra
Primary Language(s): Lampung Api (ljp)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 113,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG022508
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

99%
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Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Lampung Api
Language Family: Austronesian

100%
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Lampung Api Speakers

Media Resources in Lampung Api:

Films:
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JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Lampung Api:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Today's Lampung Version, 2002✓✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Lampung Api bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Lampung Pubian are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Next steps for the Lampung Pubian:
Continue prayer and fasting for this group
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Pray specifically for the Lampung Pubian of Indonesia

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.
readJohn 11:25

Pray for the many who have never heard about or understood the importance of what Jesus did for them, asking God to make a way for them to hear that the perfect Son of Man suffered, died, and rose again so that they might be saved.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
readJohn 3:16

Pray that the lost will seek God and learn that they have a heavenly Father who loves them and wants them to live eternally with Him.

Jesus said, ‘Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
readMark 10:29-30

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will know that when they make sacrifices to follow Jesus, He is there with them and will bless them abundantly in this life and in the life to come.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
readPsalm 23:6

Ask God to raise up believers who will share the hope that, for those who trust in Christ, goodness and love will follow them all the days of their lives, and they will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Lampung Pubian Across Countries (ROP3 - 108155) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Lampung PubianPG022508Lampung PubianIndonesia113,000Engaged yet UnreachedLampung ApiSunni Islam

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