The reasons of their failure to leave for the hajj pilgrimage were among others due to the death, illness and pregnancy as happened to 45 of 8,785 would be hajj pilgrims from Banten province.
Head of the hajj, tithe and benefaction affairs of Banten provincial office or the religious affairs ministry, Rasna Dahlan said in Serang recently that ten of the 45 people failed to leave because of death, three were pregnant and other three were under age.
Apart from that, some 20 would be hajj or elderly from Malang district, Central Java failed to leave for Saudi Arabia for various reasons, head of Malang district office of the religious affairs ministry, Mahfudh Shodar said here on Friday.
In addition, as many as 13 would be hajj from Serang, Banten province canceled their departure to Saudi Arabia. Three of them died and the rest postponed their departure next year, head of hajj affairs section of the local religious affairs ministry office, Saprudin said.
In the meantime, eight of would be hajj pilgrims from Ambon, capital of Maluku province failed to perform their departure for various reasons including fatalities.
Two of them are from the eastern part of Seram district, the administration head of Maluku religious affairs office, F.Kaisufy said in Ambon recently.
Three of them hailing from Ambon were allowed for the 2012 hajj re-registration, and their hajj affairs cost will be adjusted.
Meanwhile, two of 366 would-be hajj pilgrims from Madiun district, East Java also failed to leave for Saudi Arabia.
According to Sulhan Hamid, head of hajj and minor hajj affairs office of Madiun district, the two would-be hajj pilgrims died after suffering from illness prior to their departure to the Holy Land.
"One of the ill-fated Madiun would-be hajj pilgrims is identified as Hasan Karjan, 83 years old," Hamid said.
The East Java`s Kediri district hajj affairs department informed that three would-be hajj pilgrims from this region also failed to go to Saudi Arabia due to stoke.
Head of the Kediri`s hajj affairs department Hamam Tantowi said that the three would-be hajj pilgrims postponed their departure due to their illness.
The East Java provincial Bojonegoro district of hajj affairs department said that two would-be hajj pilgrims also failed to leave for Saudi Arabia due to death and illness.
Wakhid Priyono, head of Bojonegoro district hajj affairs section
made the statement in Bojonegoro on Wednesday (Oct 19), adding that the Hajj travel expenses of those who failed to leave for the Holy Land would be returned to their families.
In the meantime, the Indonesia`s would-be hajj pilgrims who passed away in Saudi Arabia until Saturday morning (Oct.29) has reached 76 people.
The would-be hajj pilgrims who passed away in Saudi Arabia so far, actually have not yet completed doing the peak of the Hajj pilgrimage services namely "Wuquf" or the hajj pilgrims from all over the world wearing white-Ihram uniforms gathered to stay overnight while praying in the desert of Arafah (in the outskirt of Mecca) before continuing their journey to Mina to throw three Jamaraat (obelisk for the hajj pilgrimage).
They will conduct the Wuquf service in the Arafah desert several days to come.
Meanwhile, up to Saturday morning (Oct.29) Saudi Arabian time, the number Indonesians who have arrived in the Holy Land for the hajj pilgrimage has reached 183,427 people, according to data culled from a computerized recording system.
The would-be hajj pilgrims arrived from Indonesia in 451 flight groups, the data obtained from the Hajj Integrated Computerized System (Siskohat) on Saturday showed.
Some 35,230 of the would-be hajj pilgrims boarded their flights to Saudi Arabia at Surabaya`s airport, 8,499 at Medan`s airport, 31,420 at Solo airport and 34,461 at West Java airport.
"All of Indonesia`s would-be hajj pilgrims are expected to have arrived in Saudi Arabia before the deadline on October 31 at 12 noon local time," Arysad Hidayat, the head of the Work areas hajj affairs Arsyad Hidayat said.
Previously, the hajj service director of the religious affairs ministry, Zainal Abidin Supi pointed out that the first batch of thousands of the would-be hajj pilgrims simultaneously departed from 11 embarkation airports across the country except at the Banjarmasin airport where the pilgrims departed on Thursday (Oct 6).
This year the Saudi government complied the Indonesia request for additional 10,000 hajj quota so that the total number of Indonesian would-be hajj pilgrims became 221,000 people. Around 80 percent of 230 million Indonesians are Muslims.
On Sunday (Oct 2/2011), Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali saw off thousands of Indonesian hajj pilgrims who first left for Saudi Arabia to perform the fifth pillar of Islam in the holy city of Mecca.
They were seen off by Suryadharma Ali at the Soekarno-Hatta international airport in Tangerang, Banten province.
On the occasion, the minister asked the would-be hajj pilgrims to focus on performing the hajj services to become "Mabrur Hajj" or the perfect hajj, maintain their good health condition and be efficient during their stay there.
The would-be hajj pilgrims were also requested to maintain good discipline in carrying out he hajj services procession. (*)
Reporter: Bustanuddin
Editor: Aditia Maruli Radja
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