Published on Operation World (http://www.operationworld.org)
Jul 13: Indonesia, [West] Papua (Irian Jaya)
Indonesia
Republic of Indonesia
Asia
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Geography
Area: 1,919,317 sq kmThe Republic’s 17,500 islands (6,000 inhabited) stretch over 9.5 million sq km of the Indian/Pacific Oceans, with 33 provinces, 5 of which have special status. Includes the world’s second-largest rain forest and vast coral reefs.
Population: 232,516,771 Annual Growth: 1.19%
Capital: Jakarta
Urbanites: 53.7%
HDI Rank: 111 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)
Peoples
Peoples: 784 (26% unreached) All peoplesUnreached Peoples Prayer Card
Official language: Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia). Its increasing use is unifying the nation and lessening the importance of smaller languages to the younger generation Languages: 722 All languages
Religion
Largest Religion: Muslim| Religion | Pop % | Ann Gr | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christians | 36,853,908 | 15.85 | 1.6 |
| Evangelicals | 13,010,751 | 5.6 | 2.8 |
| Muslim | 186,734,219 | 80.31 |
Challenge for Prayer
A spiritual conflict rages for Indonesia. Ancient and strong occult powers seek to oppose the influence of the gospel, while modern Muslim stratagems seek to eliminate Christianity and remove the presence of the good news. Pray specifically for the binding of these powers and for continued growth of the Church in the midst of intense opposition and growing persecution.For an additional 11 Challenges for Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.
More Information
The Operation World book, CD-ROM, and DVD-ROM provide far more information and fuel for prayer for the people of Indonesia.[West] Papua (Irian Jaya)
Indonesia
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Challenge for Prayer
The untold catastrophes of ecology and demography threaten West Papua’s stability, viability and very future. Pray against:a) The large-scale ethnic displacement happening to the indigenous peoples. The national government is facilitating the mass migration of Javanese Muslims to this more spacious region to ease the population pressure in Java and to Islamize this most Christian of Indonesia’s provinces. The army has committed heavy-handed violence against the indigenous Papuans, mostly in remote areas. The Javanese immigrants often regard the indigenous Melanesian Christians with contempt; this can be seen in the economic and employment disparity between the two groups. Pray for this oppression to end. Pray that the plight of the West Papuan peoples might be made known to the world so that other governments and international bodies might force this injustice to end.
b) The over-exploitation of precious natural resources. Corrupt forces conspire to harvest huge stretches of pristine old-growth forests, taking the profits for themselves; the provincial government and native peoples rarely benefit at all. The greed of China and the West for such wood only fuels the predation. Pray that unsustainable logging would be ended and that profits for sustainable logging would go to the people who have occupied the land for centuries.
For an additional 7 Challenges for Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.
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