Atonement on the Pilgrims Trail
It was well hidden for years, but now the squandering of funds allocated for the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca is being exposed. The Religious Affairs Department, it turns out, is the source of it all.
June 21, 2005
It got underway with a letter from the Religious Affairs Minister, Maftuh Basyuni. Last February, written permission was given to the Development Finance Controller (BPKP) to uncover the gross mismanagement of funds in the Department of Religious Affairs. Audits were made of the departments 2002-2005 expenses on the administration of the hajthe Muslim pilgrimage to Meccaprogram. When the audit report was submitted last April, it detailed a coloss
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