Indonesian Hajj Candidates In The Holy Land As Of 29 June Total 78 Thousand Congregants

A prayer bus to take Indonesian pilgrims from the hotel to the Grand Mosque in Makkah in June 2022 (ANTARA-Desi P)

JAKARTA - As many as 78,839 regular hajj candidates from Indonesia have arrived in the Holy Land of Mecca to carry out a series of hajj pilgrimages, according to the daily report of the Hajj Affairs Office on the evening of 28 June 2022.

Indonesian pilgrims who were already in the city of Mecca included all pilgrims who came through the city of Medina in the first wave and some of the pilgrims who came in the second wave through the city of Jeddah.

Based on the Antara report, the congregation who entered Saudi Arabia through the city of Medina consisted of 45,537 people and all of them were already in the city of Mecca.

According to the Hajj Travel Plan for 1443 Hijri, the departure of the second batch of pilgrims from Indonesia to Jeddah is scheduled to end on July 3, 2022.

Prior to the peak of the pilgrimage, Indonesian pilgrims who were already in the city of Mecca performed the obligatory Umrah, Sunnah Umrah, and pilgrimages.

The Indonesian government has received a quota to dispatch 100,051 citizens for the pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Mecca during the 2022 hajj pilgrimage.

According to the Integrated Hajj Information and Computerized System (Siskohat) data, among Indonesian pilgrims who were already in the Holy Land there were 90 people who underwent medical treatment with details of 87 people being treated in the City of Mecca, two being treated in the City of Medina, and one person being treated in the City of Mecca. Jeddah.