The visions and objectives of the page is to enable all the Jieeng sections to have an interactive dialogues among themselves, narrate traditional tales, histories, cultural heritages. PIFU( Padang International Federation Union) is a union formed by the Padang Communities in diaspora as an initiative to galvanize and address the social, cultural and developmental affairs of Padang in wider perspe
ctives. It is a social organization meant to reunify the ancestral descendants of Greater Padang Jieng. Padang consists of Dinka subtribes, namely:
1. Ruweng de Biemnom( Aloor).
3. Panaruu.
5. Abeliang
6. Dongjol.
7. Ageer.
8. Thoi.
9. Rut.
10. Ngok Lual Yak.
11. Luach.
12. Nyiel
There are eight counties for Padang subtribes and below are some of them, namely:
1. Abyei county which could be redivided or decentralised in the future.
2. Abiemnom county of Aloor.
3. Panrieng county of Panaruu( could get two more counties in the future).
4. Renk county of Abeliang
5. Meluth county of Dongjol.
6. Akoka county of Ageer.
7. Baliet/Abuong county of Ngok Lual Yak/Nyiel.
8. Pigi/Khorflus of Paweny/Luac/Thoi/Rut. Padang subtribes are today found in four states of South Sudan, and namely they are found in Unity State( Aloor & Panaruu), Abyei ( Warrap or future Abyei), Upper Nile state ( Abeliang, Dongjol, Ageer, Ngok Lual Yak, Nyiel) and Jonglei state( Thoi, Rut, Luac and Paweny). According to the recent national census statistic data, it is estimated roughly that Padang population is approximately 500,000 persons. It seem Padang statistics had dropped drastically compared to the national census of 1970s and 1980s in the national archives.
