BPKH Subsidiaries Prepare Thousands Of Hotels For Hajj Pilgrims, Bring Food From Indonesia

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JAKARTA - The Hajj Financial Management Agency (BPKH) Limited has entered into a cooperation contract for the management of two hotels in Saudi Arabia for pilgrims from Indonesia.

Director of BPKH Limited, Sidiq Haryono explained, this subsidiary of BPKH focuses on providing comfortable accommodation, catering and transportation infrastructure for Umrah and Hajj pilgrims.

In fact, BPKJ will also bring in food from Indonesia.

"For example, if we have one hotel, BPKH Limited can manage the hotel so that it is familiar as in Indonesia for the convenience of the congregation. Or for catering, we bring the spices from the country so that the taste matches the tongue of Indonesians," said Sidiq in his statement, Monday, July 29.

Sidiq said, apart from being a collaborator, BPKH Limited also offered to become an aggregator to help product owners market their products in Saudi Arabia.

However, he emphasized that BPKH does not position itself as a competitor to the existing Hajj and Umrah ecosystems.

"So basically we are vendors and suppliers. Not being an operator let alone marketing travel, we don't get there," he said.

In collaboration with hotel management, BPKH Limited invested by renting a full hotel for three years in Medina, namely Anshar Golden Tulip Hotel.

Anshar Golden Tulip is a three-star hotel that has 725 rooms with a capacity of 2,800 worshipers. Apart from Medina, BPKH Limited received an allotment (allotment) of hotel rooms in Makkah.

We also signed a contract to get an allocation of 200 rooms at the Hilton Convention Makkah. This is a five-star hotel that is very close to the Haram Mosque area with a capacity of 600 to 700 worshipers," said Sidiq.

He is optimistic that investments at the Anshar Golden Tulip Medina and the Hilton Convention Hotel Makkah will provide great benefits for managing hajj funds.

These two investments, we believe, will provide a much higher profit than other investment instruments that have been made before, and all of these profits will be returned to improve congregational services," he added.