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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Aralle-Tabulahan of Indonesia

The Aralle-Tabulahan of Indonesia, numbering approximately 20,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Indonesia They are an Indigenous people, in the Bugi-Makassar of Sulawesi people cluster of the Malay Peoples affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Islam - Sunni. They primarily speak Aralle-Tabulahan.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
Country: Indonesia
People Cluster: Bugi-Makassar of Sulawesi
Primary Language(s): Aralle-Tabulahan (atq)
Primary Religion(s): Islam - Sunni
Population: 20,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG022783

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Primary Religion: Islam - Sunni
Religious Affiliation: Islam

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Islam - Sunni Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Aralle-Tabulahan
Language Family: Austronesian

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Aralle-Tabulahan Speakers

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Next steps for the Aralle-Tabulahan

The Aralle-Tabulahan are Unengaged and Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

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Next steps for the Aralle-Tabulahan

The Aralle-Tabulahan 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.

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Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Next steps for the Aralle-Tabulahan

The Aralle-Tabulahan 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.

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Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

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For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.
readIsaiah 48:11

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For my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples.
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Pray that the lost will see the salvation of God, and that they will trust in Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord.

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.
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Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be encouraged as they remember that Jesus is with them when they gather in His name.

And he said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."
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Ask God to send out laborers into His harvest field, raising up believers from around the world to go and proclaim the kingdom of God with those who need to hear it.

Aralle-Tabulahan (ROP3 - 100456) reported in the following countries:

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