The Pleasure Of Hajj Candidates In Purwakarta, Picked Up From Home And Delivered To Bekasi Dormitory Using Local Government Official Cars

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JAKARTA - The government of Purwakarta Regency, West Java deployed 201 official cars to pick up prospective pilgrims from their homes and take them to the hajj dormitories.

District government official cars were deployed to various areas in Purwakarta to pick up 349 hajj candidates from their homes. Then take them to the meeting point in Tajug Gede Cilodong, Bungursari District, and then take them to the Hajj hostel in Bekasi City.

"The pick-up of prospective hajj pilgrims from their homes to the gathering point to the hajj hostel in Bekasi has become a tradition from year to year," said Purwakarta Regent Anne Ratna Mustika in a press statement for the local government in Purwakarta, Monday, June 27, quoted from Antara.

As with the previous year's Hajj services, this year the official cars of the district government, including the official cars of the regent and deputy regent, were deployed to pick up and deliver pilgrims who were about to depart for the Holy Land to perform the pilgrimage.

The regent said that all members of the congregation who will depart for the Holy Land have undergone a health check.

"Alhamdulillah, all of them are declared healthy and fit the requirements to carry out the pilgrimage for this year," he said.