Kluet People Group Profile

“‘For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch’” (Malachi 4:1, ESV).

The Kluet [Kloot] are extremely proud of their heritage, language and religion. There are 50,000 Kluet in Southern Aceh. They have no known believers and no indigenous church. They are one of Sumatra’s least reached people groups. The Kluet are friendly and open to visitors who come to them, but they tend to keep to themselves. There are three regions of Kluet that all have slight variations on language.

Most of the Kluet work in farming. They produce rice, coffee, palm oil, nutmeg, and a variety of vegetables. There is some gold mining, but that is being developed by outside interests. The Kluet area is rich in natural beauty and could easily be developed as a tourist destination. Two challenges that the Kluet are currently facing are problems with wild elephants and problems with dying nutmeg trees. The Kluet have sought outside help for both of these problems without success.

The Kluet are Muslim. They mix their Muslim belief with animism. Some Kluet have rings that they believe have magical powers. Because the Kluet often remain to themselves, and there are no churches close to them, the result is they often have never heard the Gospel.

Pray that:

God will call workers to focus on reaching the Kluet people.

God will help workers to have wisdom to help with deep community wide problems such as the wild elephants and dying nutmeg trees.

Fellowships on Sumatra and in the United States will adopt the Kluet for focused prayer and will send teams to share the Gospel.

Believers will have wisdom to help the Kluet develop the tourism potential of their beautiful area, and that this help will lead to open doors for sharing truth.

First fruit Kluet believers will hear the Gospel and come to faith before the end of this year.

Kluet believers will stand strong in their new faith, and will be bold to share the Gospel with friends and family.

God will reveal the Gospel to the Kluet through demonstrations of His mighty power through His servants as they are witnesses of His truth.