5 The need for spiritual leaders of maturity in the churches has never been greater

a) The development of effective lay leadership

b) Continuing training and discipleship for church leaders

c) Effective teaching and discipling in primary and secondary level Bible schools

d) The 40 degree-level seminaries, about half being influenced by liberal theology

e) The 18 evangelical seminaries relating to the Asian Theological Association

f) The spiritual quality and commitment of current pastors and spiritual leaders to be high

6 A vision for the evangelization of Indonesia has grown as the opposition has increased

a) A viable witnessing church for every people group in the country

b) A church in every village

c) A unified Indonesian prayer movement,

7 Development of a missionary vision

a) Churches to be gripped by the challenge of hundreds of unreached peoples

b) The sending out of Christians – individuals, teams and communities – as migrants to unevangelized areas;

c) Indonesian missionary agencies are increasing in number

Economy

Increasingly diversified economy based on oil, gas, forest products, agriculture and textiles, with large reserves of many minerals. HDI 0.681; 105^th/174. Public debt (2000) 99% of GNP. Income/person $450 (1.4% of USA).

Politics

Colonial rule by Portuguese (1511-1605), Dutch (1605-1942, 1945-9), British (1807-1815) and Japanese (1942-45).

Religion

Monotheism and communal peace are the basis for the stated government ideology of Pancasila.

Churches in Indonesia

Missionaries from Indonesia

an est. 3,000 of which over 70 are in 22 foreign countries.

Expatriates in Indonesia

an est. 1,000+ in over 100 agencies.

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Geography

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Area 1,919,317 sq.km. The Republic's 17,000 islands (4,000 inhabited) stretch 6,400 km of land over 9.5 million sq.km of the Indian/Pacific Oceans, with 23 provinces, 2 special regions and the capital district.

Population (2000) 212,991,926 +1.44%AGR

Capital Jakarta 12.2 mill.

Peoples

Major peoples – using preferred Indonesian spelling. See under regions below for more detail.

Indo-Malay 94%.

Chinese 4%.

Papua peoples 1.2%.

Other 0.8%.

Literacy 83.8%; rising steadily. Official language Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia). Its increasing use is both unifying the nation and lessening the importance of smaller languages to the younger generation. All languages 726; 18 spoken by more than one million speakers; 247 spoken in Papua. Languages with Scriptures 20Bi 38NT 77por.

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