Hajj Special Committee Still Needed Even Though Kental Nuansa Politics

Photo caption: The Indonesian House of Representatives Hajjwas during a meeting with the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) at the Madinah Regional Office (Danner), Saudi Arabia. (dpr.go.id)

JAKARTA Executive Director of the Indonesia Political Opinion (IPO), Dedi Kurnia Syah hopes that there will be no concurrent opinion regarding the formation of the DPR RI Hajj Special Committee (Pansus) despite the conflict between Deputy Speaker of the DPR Muhaimin Iskandar (Cak Imin) and Minister of Religion Yaqut Cholil Qoumas (Gus Yaqut).

"Although there is a dispute between Cak Imin and Gus Yaqut, it needs to be put aside, because of the fact that as the leader of the DPR, Cak Imin is carrying out his duties subtantiation," he said, Sunday, July 14, 2024.

According to him, the process of forming a special committee which is said to be not in accordance with the statutory mechanism, because it does not go through the DPR Deliberative Body (Bamus) first does not need to be debated. This is because supervision must still be carried out by the DPR, considering that the issue of implementing the pilgrimage is always repeated.

"If it is true that the Hajj Special Committee in the process is not administratively orderly, but the supervision of the implementation of the Hajj must be carried out, especially by the Ministry of Religion's partnership commission. Do not direct the discourse of an inappropriate special committee process, only to reject the evaluation of the implementation of the hajj," he said.

Dedi assessed that in the 2024 Hajj implementation there were many problems, such as poor governance for regular Hajj to inadequate facilities. Therefore, in the matter of evaluating the implementation of the pilgrimage, the position of Cak Imin and the DPR Hajj Special Committee are more worthy of public support.

"There are also quite a lot of problems with organizing Hajj, such as neglected pilgrims and Hajj services that are still not good. These hajj problems are latent problems, they must be resolved so that they don't happen again," he said.