Pilgrimage Price Pressures
The current administration and the DPR have not yet fixed the price of performing the haj pilgrimage. DPR members and officials at the Department of Religious Affairs vie over shares of payments made by pilgrims.
June 23, 2010
AFTER the deadlock at the House of Representatives (DPR) Building, the meeting moved to the Widya Chandra Housing Complex in Jakarta. The members of Commission VII at the DPR, the body which deals with issues related to the haj or pilgrimage to Mecca, went to the official residence of Minister of Religious Affairs Suryadharma Ali, on Thursday afternoon last week.
“We met because there was some news about money,” said Said Abdullah, a member
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