Petrus Kafiar

Petrus Kafiar (died 1926) was an evangelist active on Irian Jaya.

Background The son of a headman, Kafiar was a native of Supiori Island; his date of birth has been given variously as 1864 and c. 1873. an Indonesian missionary couple at Mansinam paid to ensure his liberation. He received his baptism in 1887. Kafiar became a teacher-preacher, serving in various locations before returning in 1908 to the village of his birth. He went on to become a pioneer of missionary work in Biak. who came to be seen as the most successful of those groups Christianized under the Dutch.