BPKH Ensures Hajj Village In Sukabumi Does Not Use Hajj Funds

The Implementing Agency Of The Hajj Financial Management Agency inaugurated Hajj Village In Sukabumi, West Java

JAKARTA - The Implementing Agency of the Hajj Financial Management Agency inaugurated Hajj Village in Sukabumi, West Java. The construction is intended to accommodate victims of the moving land disaster in February 2019 in Gunungbatu Village, Kertangsana Village.

"We hope that the BPKH Hajj Village can be a blessing for its residents and provide the greatest benefit," said Head of the BPKH Executive Board Fadlul Imansyah in his statement, Thursday, August 15.

Kampung Haji ini terdiri dari 129 hunian tetap untuk 180 kepala keluarga. Proses pembangunan di tanah seluas 5 hektar telah dimulai 2023 tanpa menggunakan dana deposita awal haji dari masyarakat ketapi dari nilai manfaat dana eksional umat.

"We make sure that until now every distribution of benefit does not use the initial deposit funds for Hajj," he said.

"(Development, red) only uses the endowment of the people's funds, and that also does not use the principal of the people's endowment funds, but uses the results or value of the benefits of managing Hajj finance in the people's endowment funds," continued Fadlul.

Fadlul said the budget used reached Rp. 8 billion. This program is also said to be in accordance with the mandate of Law Number 34 of 2014, which states that all DAU Benefit Values will be returned to the people in the form of benefit activities.

This program has also been carried out in two regions of Central Sulawesi Province. It is hoped that in the future the quality of life of residents can increase.

"Hajj villages are expected not only to become residential areas, but also to become centers of community activities that can improve the quality of life and welfare that has been equipped with mosques, parks, miniatures of Ka'bah and management of clean water sources," concluded Fadlul.