BPKH And Bank Muamalat Facilitate Diaspora And Migrant Workers Hajj

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JAKARTA - The Hajj Financial Management Agency (BPKH) and PT Bank Muamalat Indonesia Tbk facilitated the diaspora and migrant workers to make pilgrimages without returning to Indonesia to register.

BPKH Implementing Member Harry Alexander said that as public legal entities established to manage Hajj finances, they must certainly carry out the mandate of the constitution in Article 29 of the 1945 Constitution (UUD), where every citizen has the right to carry out their religion according to their beliefs, one form of service is the facility for Hajj.

Diaspora and Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia are citizens who also have constitutional rights, so BPKH is here to provide answers that so far they cannot register for Hajj because Malaysia does not accept foreign pilgrims, while if it is done in Indonesia there are geographical difficulties.

"Well, we together with Bank Muamalat come to serve the rights of the constitution. The rights that are obligations are not only in accordance with the constitution of therapy are also in accordance with the obligations of those who are Muslim," he said, after the implementation of the Hajj Gathering Forum in Kuala Lumpur, quoted from Antara, Sunday, August 6.

In terms of the market, he said, there are around 1.6 million Indonesian migrant workers who can certainly increase management assets under Bank Muamalat which is estimated to reach IDR 50 trillion that can be utilized, while of course serving Hajj pilgrims.

According to him, they benefit because BPKH as the owner of Bank Muamalat, as well as the only Indonesian bank in Malaysia.

President Director of PT Bank Muamalat Indonesia Tbk Indra Falatehan said that the existence of the bank, which has existed since 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, hopes that the branch offices there can be useful, especially for the diaspora and Indonesian migrant workers.

So, he said, Bank Muamalat facilitates all those who want to make pilgrimages through their banks and BPKH can go through mobile banking or come directly to their branch offices in Kuala Lumpur.

According to him, even if Indonesian citizens (WNI) are allowed to register for Hajj in Malaysia, the waiting time will also take 100 years. Meanwhile, if you register for Hajj in Indonesia, the average waiting time is around 20 to 30 years.

Passports and ID cards are certainly a requirement for Indonesian citizens to open a Hajj pilgrim savings account or Hajj hijrah savings. If they already have an e-KTP, they can even open a Bank Muamalat account through a mobile banking application that is connected to the dkcapil, and can use "Liveness Detection Biometric Identification".

For those who do not have an e-KTP and have been in Malaysia for a long time, they can use a passport to open an account in Kuala Lumpur. In addition, they can open Hajj savings, so that if they are met with Rp. 25 million, they can go to the Holy Land.

Around hundreds of representatives of the diaspora and Indonesian migrant workers in Kuala Lumpur participated in the Hajj Gathering Forum which was also attended by the Deputy Head of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia in Malaysia, Rossy Verona.