The people of the Municipality of Idabato - IDABATO COUNCIL

The district is the seat of the Idabato Chiefdom, a 2nd degree traditional chiefdom, home to the Balue people, and recognized by the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization.

There were 35000 inhabitants in for 16km squared land surface .

In 1900, Georg Spellenberg, of the Basel Mission, moved to Idabato to study the possibility of developing missionary action in the Korup National Park. The inhabitants of Idabato are mainly Christians, of various denominations, though mostly Presbyterians.

Michael Elangwe Namaya, a former minister, was born in Idabato in 1940.