Starting Full Operation 2024, West Java Ministry Of Religion Believes Hajj Departure In Kertajati Increases

Prospective Indonesian Hajj pilgrims boarding depart for the Holy Land. (Between)

West Java (West Java) Regional Office (Kanwil) of the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) ensures that Hajj pilgrims departing from West Java International Airport (BIJB) Kertajati, Majalengka Regency, increase in 2024.

This belief was conveyed by the Head of the West Java Regional Office of the Ministry of Religion, Ajam Musjam, following the largest airport in West Java, which began to operate fully. Including the transfer of all jet-engined flights from Husein Sastranegara Airport, Bandung.

So, said Ajam, the implementation of the 2024 Hajj for pilgrims from West Java will mostly depart from Kertajati Airport, with the rest from Halim Perdanakusuma Airport or Soekarno Hatta.

"(In 2024) it has increased, yesterday we (2023) were 11,000, now (planned) 20-25 thousand pilgrims leave," said Ajam in his statement, confiscated Friday, December 15.

Regarding the quota of pilgrims from West Java, he said that until now he is still using the calculation in 2023, which is more than 36,800 plus officers and supervisors, although there is information on the quota for Indonesian pilgrims to get additional.

If there is an addition, added Ajam, it is possible to reach 40 thousand people accompanied by Hajj assistant officers.

"As for the information that Indonesia has received an addition, so far we have not received an additional quota for West Java, but there must be an addition," he said.

Previously, the Director of Hajj for the Directorate General of Hajj and Umrah (Ditjen PHU) of the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag), Arsyad Hidayat, said that the quota for Hajj pilgrims 1445 H/2024 was a total of 221 thousand plus an additional 20 thousand Hajj pilgrims.

Arsyad said that additional Hajj quotas were obtained during President Jokowi's visit to Saudi Arabia, and were actually confidential.

He also conveyed that for the 2024 Hajj officers, initially Indonesia received a quota of 2,210 hajj officers. This means that it has decreased by 52 percent from the quota of hajj officers in 2023.

However, from the information, when the Indonesian Minister of Religion sent a written letter and communicated with the Minister of Hajj of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia received an additional quota of more than 2,200 Hajj officers. So that the total (quade of hajj officers) is at 4,421 hajj officers.