Papua Province Gets Quota To Send 488 People For Hajj In 2022, Most From Jayapura City

Head of Hajj Affairs at the Regional Office of the Ministry of Religion of Papua Province, Musa Narwawan. (ANTARA/HO)

PAPUA - Papua Province has a quota of sending 488 people for Hajj through the embarkation of Makassar, South Sulawesi during the Hajj season in 2022 or 1443 Hijri.

Head of Hajj Affairs at the Regional Office of the Ministry of Religion of Papua Province, Musa Narwawan, said the provincial hajj quota includes pilgrims from 16 districts and cities in Papua.

"The Hajj quota for Jayapura City is 140 people, Mimika Regency is 114 people, Nabire Regency is 57 people, Merauke Regency is 52 people, Jayapura Regency is 26 people, and Yapen Regency is 19 people," he explained in Jayapura, Antara, Wednesday, 18 May.

Meanwhile, Asmat and Jayawijaya regencies each received a quota of 12 hajj people, Boven Digoel Regency got a quota of six people, Waropen and Keerom regencies each got a quota of five people, Mappi Regency got four quotas, and Paniai and Sarmi regencies each. three people each.

Papua Province before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in early 2020 received a quota to send 1,076 people for Hajj. Like other provinces, Papua this year received a reduction in the hajj quota because the Saudi Arabian government also reduced the hajj quota for Indonesia.

Indonesia in 2019 was able to send up to 218,150 people for Hajj, but in 2022 it only gets a share to send 100,051 people for Hajj to the Holy Land.

Musa explained that the cost of the pilgrimage for pilgrims who departed through the Makassar embarkation, including pilgrims from Papua, was Rp. 42,686,506 per person.

Pilgrims from Papua who have paid off the cost of the pilgrimage and meet the requirements for the pilgrimage are scheduled to depart for Saudi Arabia via Makassar on June 29, 2022.

According to Musa, the pilgrims from Papua who are scheduled to depart this year have not yet fully paid the cost of the pilgrimage.