Lobbying For 168 Hotels For Indonesian Hajj Candidates In 2024 Will Be Filled With Indonesian Food Pavilion

Illustration of prospective pilgrims from Indonesia leaving for the Holy Land. (Between)

JAKARTA - The Hajj Financial Management Agency (BPKH) Limited as a subsidiary of BPKH plans to fill the lobby or area around the hotel where prospective Hajj pilgrims live with various Indonesian food platforms. "In total this year there are approximately 168 hotels. Of the 168 hotels, we will map how many tenants we can optimize. We don't know yet (the number) because maybe at the end of the month we will release the mapping results," said the Director of BPLKH Limited Sidiq Haryono in Jakarta, Thursday, February 15, confiscated by Antara. Sidiq said BPKH Limited would be an aggregator for Indonesian entrepreneurs who want to do business in Saudi Arabia during the Hajj season. For this reason, BPKH invites large business owners to enliven the congregation's hotel in the Holy Land. The plan is for the hotel to be filled by a food platform, namely the hotel in Makkah. "We will open to the market of entrepreneurs from Indonesia who want to do business in Saudi Arabia. We can become aggregators as mediators to reverse the business in Saudi Arabia," he said. According to him, BPKH and the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) have signed a cooperation agreement in managing commercialable hotel areas. The change in the atmosphere of the hotel as if it were in Indonesia is expected to affect the physical and mental health of the congregation. "If you miss food in Indonesia, the congregation only needs to go to the hotel lobby," he said.

In addition, in the future, BPKH Limited will prepare a long-term business strategy plan. BPKH will rent two hotels, each in Makkah and Medina. The two hotels will be fully operated by BPKH together with partners in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. This hotel can later be used both during the Hajj and Umrah seasons. However, he stressed that the operation of the two hotels did not mean to disrupt the pilgrimage climate that had been built by other Hajj and Umrah industries. "But BPK Limited will collaborate with all the entities of the Umrah and Hajj ecosystem players who are currently existing. So that we will become a collaboration strategy partnership for all business actors in Umrah and Hajj," he said.