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Number of Indonesians ending life during hajj reaches 444 Sat, November 26 2011 14:01 | Mecca (ANTARA News) - The number of Indonesians who died in the Holy Land while making the hajj pilgrimage this year by 8.12 am local time or 12.12 am West Indonesia Standard Time (WIB) on Saturday reached 444, official data showed. Most of them or 290 died due to circulation system problem. "A total of 417 of the deceased were performing hajj under the regular hajj pilgrimage services while 27 others under the first-class pilgrimage services (ONH-Plus)," Evi Al Hudhori of the computerized data at the Integrated Hajj Services office of the Religious Affairs Ministry in Saudi Arabia, said here on Saturday. She said that the types of disease suffered by the hajj pilgrims were respiratory problem (111), blood membrane (13), infection and parasite, and nutritional endocrine and mental problems respectively 9, and neoplasm five persons. Most of the deceased c(78), Bekasi (51), Jakarta (48) and Makassar (30). Most of them aged 60 years old reaching 327 persons, followed by those age 50-59 (95), 40-40 (20) and below 40 (2). Up to now, the number of Indonesian hajj pilgrims who have returned home has reached 100,770, or 50.46 percent of the total number of Indonesian hajjs who will arrive in Indonesia numbering 199,693. (Uu.A014/HAJM/F001) ++++ http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/74831/ri-asks-for-additional-27000-hajj-quota RI asks for additional 27,000 hajj quota Tue, August 16 2011 20:00 | 536 Views Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The government of Indonesia has asked Saudi Arabia for an additional 27,000 hajj quota in 2011, Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said here on Tuesday. But the minister said his office was still waiting for an approval from Saudi Arabian government of the additional hajj quota. "Our request for the additional hajj quota has yet to be responded by Saudi Arabian government and we are still waiting," the religious affairs minister said after attending Regional Representatives Council and House of Representatives joint session where President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono delivered his state address on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of Indonesian independence. On the occasion the minister said he was not sure when the Saudi Arabian government would probably respond to the Indonesian request of additional hajj quota. Asked about the preparation for hajj pilgrimage this year, the religious affairs minister said that to date 160,000 passports had been completed while the visas applications were still underway. "Visas application is still underway, and the paying off of the hajj pilgrim cost is still being made," Suryadharma said. He expressed hope that early of October the prospective hajj pilgrims would start to leave for the holy land. Suryadharma said the hajj quota for Indonesia this year was set at 211,000 pilgrims but a long queue for the hajj pilgrimage has happened until several years into the future. He said increasing demand for hajj pilgrimage for years from Indonesian people has exceeded the number of quota, and therefore Vice President Boediono when performing his minor hajj pilgrimage recently requested the Saudi Arabian government to increase the number of quota. (Uu.O001/H-AJM/F001) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
