PPIH Surabaya Completes 6,840 Visa Candidates For Hajj Pilgrims

Officers processed the completeness of documents for prospective pilgrims at the Surabaya Embarkation Hajj Dormitory, Friday (25/4/2025). (DOC. ANTARA)

The Surabaya Embarkation Hajj Organizing Committee (PPIH) has completed 6,840 visas out of a total of 36,845 pilgrims from East Java, Bali and East Nusa Tenggara who will depart for the Holy Land.

Head of the Regional Office of the Ministry of Religion of East Java (Kakanwil Kemenag Jatim) Akhmad Sruji Bahtiar after being inaugurated as Chairman of PPIH Embarkation Surabaya explained that the departure of the congregation was divided into 97 flying groups (kloters).

"We have scheduled departures from May 2 to 31, 2025," he told reporters in Surabaya, as reported by ANTARA, Saturday, April 26.

Sruji explained that each group in the Surabaya Embarkation consists of 370 prospective pilgrims.

The pilgrims for the Surabaya Embarkation Hajj candidate batch 1 came from Tulungagung Regency, East Java. Group 1 is scheduled to enter the Surabaya Hajj Dormitory on May 1 to undergo the embarkation process. Then go to the Holy Land on May 2, 2025.

Currently, PPIH Embarkation Surabaya is confirming the completeness of documents for prospective hajj pilgrims, ranging from passports to visas.

Sruji conveyed that in particular the visa, whose management was centered at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Jakarta, was recorded to have been completed by 6,840 pilgrims who were members of the 18 early batches.

"The congregation's visa that we received, in accordance with the collected data, is ready for departure of 18 clusters out of a total of 97 clusters," he said.

Sruji revealed that the processing of visas for prospective pilgrims has been carried out in stages based on the order of the group at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Jakarta.

According to him, experience based on the management of Hajj visas in previous years was always completed several days before the schedule of each congregation's departure.

"Later on, visas will be shared with documents and other Hajj completeness when the congregation undergoes the embarkation process at the Surabaya Hajj Dormitory ahead of departure to the Holy Land," he concluded.