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Govt explores alternative procurement channels for meningitis vaccine

The scarcity of meningitis vaccines for Indonesian Umrah pilgrims has prompted the National Agency of Drug and Food ...

Hajj pilgrimage costs may get adjusted: Religious Affairs Ministry

Religious Affairs Ministry's Director General of Hajj and Umrah Hilman Latief hinted at a possible adjustment to ...

Hajj practice session can help instill religious moderation: official

Religious moderation could be instilled in prospective Indonesian Hajj pilgrims through Hajj manasik (practice) while ...

MPR deputy speaker urges govt to prepare Umrah departure rules

Deputy Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR RI) Hidayat Nur Wahid has urged the government to prepare ...

Religious Minister proposes improvement in hajj facilities to Saudi government

Indonesian Minister of Religion, Lukman Hakim Saifuddin, is currently in Saudi Arabia to discuss the importance of ...

Thousands of pilgrims crowd old Banten area

Thousands of pilgrims from across the cities crowded the mausoleum of the country's Muslim prominent figure, Sultan ...

Indonesian hajj pilgrims to use electronic bracelets

Indonesias government is discussing plans to equip hajj pilgrims with electronic bracelets to reduce the number of ...

Indonesian minister convinced hajj management better this year

Interim Religious Affairs Minister Agung Laksono who is also chief peoples welfare minister, said that the ...

Indonesia to see robust tourism trade at ITB Berlin

Indonesia is expected to see robust tourism trade at the Internationale Tourismus-Borse Berlin, better known as ITB ...

Explosion in Yogyakarta comes from dried battery, police

An explosion in Mandala Krida stadium here was caused by an abandoned-dried car battery, not a bomb, as was previously ...

News focus: all RI hajj pilgrims should wear batik

Thousands of Indonesian hajj pilgrims left for Saudi Arabia on Sunday morning (Oct 2,2011) to perform the fifth ...

VP calls for increase in RI's hajj pilgrimage quota

Vice President Boediono has urged Indonesian diplomats dealing with hajj pilgrimage affairs in Saudi Arabia to strive ...

Robot Ruby Breaks Rubik's Record

-         The world's fastest Rubik's Cube-solving robot has been developed by ...

Bomb attacks on Shi`ites, Iraqi police kill 48

At least 48 people were killed in Iraq on Thursday in bombings targeting Shi`ite pilgrims and police, a third day of ...

64 Pilgrims dead in Indian stampede: state minister

The toll from a deadly stampede at a pilgrimage site in southern Indian on Friday rose to 64, with 75 injured, the ...