JAKARTA - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin conveyed that the acquisition of Indonesia's hajj quota for as many as 100,051 people from the Saudi Arabian government this year is something to be grateful for.
"We are grateful, we accept it, because it has been two years that we haven't made many pilgrimages," said the Vice President on the sidelines of his working visit in Gunungkidul, DIY, quoted by Antara, Friday, April 22.
The vice president said that the authority to provide hajj quota rests with the Saudi Arabian government.
Therefore, the Vice President said, whatever the decision, the Indonesian government will accept even though the actual quota acquisition is below the pre-pandemic quota which could reach 200,000 people.
"Usually, if the normal rate is above 200,000 people, now we are given more than 100,000 people," he said.
According to Ma'ruf Amin, the acquisition of the quota must still be accepted and grateful for because Indonesia is one of the countries that has received quite a lot of quotas compared to other countries.
"So we just accept the amount and we are among the ones who get quite special, because the others are below us, and we are quite good," he said.
The vice president asked the public to be patient because the decrease in the hajj quota caused the queues for hajj departures to get longer.
"Yes, there are usually 10 years, some 20 years, 15 years, maybe two more years (the pandemic), it could increase again," said Ma'ruf Amin.
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