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PIKIRAN RAKYAT - The Ministry of Religious Affairs violated a number of layered regulations in the management of the 2024 Hajj pilgrimage. This violation has a significant impact and is detrimental to regular pilgrims from Indonesia.
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Chairman of the Working Committee of Commission VIII of the House of Representatives (DPR) of the Republic of Indonesia regarding the Cost of Organizing the Hajj Pilgrimage (BPIH) 1445 H/2024, Abdul Wachid revealed violations by the Ministry of Religion this year.
He said that the ministry violated the agreement in a working meeting with Commission VIII of the House of Representatives and Presidential Decree Number 6 of 2024, regarding Indonesia's hajj quota in 2024.
The reason is that the quota provided by Saudi Arabia increased in October 2023. Indonesia received an additional quota allocation of 20.000 pilgrims from its original 221.000 pilgrims.
This additional was successfully obtained after President Joko Widodo held a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman. Thus, the total allocation of Indonesia's hajj quota has increased to 241.000 thousand hajj pilgrims.
"The Working Meeting of Commission VIII with the Minister of Religion on November 27, 2023, agreed that our hajj quota for 2024 is 241.000 pilgrims, consisting of 221.720 regular pilgrims and 19.280 special pilgrims," said Wachid, who is also Deputy Chairman of Commission VIII of the House of Representatives.
Problems began to arise since the working meeting of Commission VIII of the House of Representatives with the Minister of Religion of the Republic of Indonesia on March 13, 2024, where the Minister of Religion of the Republic of Indonesia changed the composition of the distribution of the hajj quota by not including the additional quota obtained from Jokowi's meeting with the Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia in October 2023.
For information, the distribution of the hajj quota refers to Article 64 paragraph (2) of Law Number 8 of 2019 on the Implementation of Hajj and Umrah. It is written that the special hajj quota is set at eight percent.