Responding To The BPS Survey, The Ministry Of Religion Will Pay Attention To Tenda Capacity With The Number Of Hajj Pilgrims

Illustration of pilgrims from Indonesia carrying out worship at departure 2022. (ANTARA)aa

JAKARTA - The Director General of Hajj and Umrah (PHU) of the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag), Hilman Latief, said that the placement of tents for the Hajj pilgrims in the next implementation will be more proportional and adjust the capacity of the Hajj pilgrims.

Hilman said he responded to the results of a survey by the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), where the results of the 2024 Indonesian Hajj pilgrims satisfaction index (IKJHI) against tents in Armuzna were still at 76.10, only increasing by 3.16 points from 2023 at 72.94.

"The tents are good, many, but there are indeed many congregants, so the meaning of the tent is more about the meaning, yes, capacity, which is actually the ratio of the number of our congregations in one particular location to occupy the tents used by them. The one that was crowded yesterday was due to the problem of density, if it was crowded, yes, the task of the Ministry of Religion is to maintain how to avoid overcrowding," he said in Jakarta, Friday, September 20, which was confiscated by Antara.

He emphasized that regarding infrastructure problems, this is under the authority of the local government in Saudi Arabia, which is currently also designing new schemes.

"Especially how to make Mina the placement of the congregation more proportional, but also to relax its density," he said.

To unravel the density of pilgrims, Hilman stated that the Ministry of Religion together with the Government of Saudi Arabia are drafting a tanazil scheme, or returning to a hotel without a mabit procession (night) in Mina's tent to break down the congestion of worshipers.

"That's what I mentioned earlier, the design means that more hotels in Mina will be rented, yesterday the difficulty was who the pilgrims would do the tanazul, because the data must be clear, what tanazul is? The seeds are not in a tent or Mina, but in a nearby hotel, while we know that the pilgrims are all 98.9 percent new, all who want to feel the sensation of living in a tent," he explained.

However, he stressed, the tanazil scheme is still being discussed and voluntary.

"(The tanazil scheme) is still tricky, therefore we will prepare special categories because after all the tanazil already exists, but it is voluntary, not by design," he said.