JAKARTA - Minister of Religion (Menag) Yaqut Cholil Qoumas admitted that his party would study more deeply regarding the discourse on banning Hajj more than once.
"Indeed, the obligation in Islam is hajj once in a lifetime, even if you can afford it, but the proposal must be reviewed," said Minister of Religion Yaqut Cholil Qoumas as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, August 29.
Minister of Religion Yaqut said the discourse must be studied whether it is appropriate or not if it is implemented, because it has an impact on many people who are included in the hajj queue.
He said that the discourse was appropriate to be implemented by considering reducing queues, however, some prospective pilgrims who had queued were included in the hajj category more than once.
"So we will review it first, because there must be special treatment for prospective pilgrims," he said.
Regarding next year's Hajj preparations, the man who is familiarly called Gus Men said his party was waiting for the results and evaluation of this year's Hajj implementation.
The Ministry of Religion can only decide various kinds of things related to the implementation of the pilgrimage next year.
"We will report it to the DPR on August 31 the day after tomorrow, we will report the implementation of this year's Hajj, then after that we can only make preparations for Hajj next year," said the Minister of Religion.
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Previously, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (PMK) Muhadjir Effendy opened the discourse of prohibiting people from going to Hajj more than once to cut queues.
"There are more and more elderly because of the long queue," said Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy (25/8).
Based on data on the implementation of the 2023 Hajj, 43.78 percent of pilgrims out of 22,900 Hajj participants are over 60 years old. Meanwhile, Indonesian pilgrims who died reached 774 people or 3.38 percent with the majority aged.
From this data, elderly Hajj participants have a 7.1 times greater risk of dying than non-elderly pilgrims.
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