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August 27, 2025 | 02:05 am
The treatment connected establishing the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah emerged aft the Indonesian authorities and the House of Representatives (DPR) agreed to alteration the Hajj Fund Management Agency (BP Haji) into a ministry successful the Draft Law connected the Third Amendment to Law Number 8 of 2019 concerning the Implementation of Hajj and Umrah, oregon the Hajj Bill.
Member of Commission VIII DPR RI, Selly Andriany Gantina, emphasized that aft the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah is established, the Directorate General of Hajj and Umrah Organization (Ditjen PHU) wrong the Ministry of Religious Affairs volition beryllium abolished. "Within the Ministry of Religious Affairs, it indispensable automatically beryllium removed, determination volition nary longer beryllium thing related to Ditjen PHU," said Selly to the media astatine the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Central Jakarta, connected Sunday, August 24, 2025.
Selly added that each quality resources and assets related to the implementation of hajj and umrah volition beryllium transferred to the caller ministry. However, she emphasized the request for coordination with the Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB) and the Ministry of Religious Affairs to restructure the organization model to debar overlaps.
Deputy Head of BP Haji, Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak, explained that the constitution of this ministry is portion of the hajj betterment docket that has been planned for a agelong time. "Since 2014, Mr. Prabowo has had a imaginativeness to found the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah. It has been accordant done the 2019 and 2024 elections," said Dahnil successful Jakarta connected Saturday, August 23, 2025, arsenic quoted from Antara.
He stressed that the constitution of the Hajj Ministry is not a impermanent absorption to the dynamics of hajj enactment successful caller years, but portion of a long-planned hajj betterment agenda.
"This is not a absorption to the 2024 lawsuit oregon erstwhile years. From the beginning, the constitution of this ministry is portion of the betterment of hajj governance that Mr. Prabowo is committed to," helium said.
Chair of Commission VIII DPR, Marwan Dasopang, added that the alteration successful organization presumption volition guarantee clearer authorization and debar overlaps with the Ministry of Religious Affairs. Because according to Marwan, hajj and umrah affairs inactive autumn wrong the spiritual scope nether the authorization of the Ministry of Religious Affairs. "It tin beryllium clustered, this is the spiritual affairs, the Minister of Religion. This is simply a circumstantial spiritual matter for the implementation of hajj and umrah. And this has been resolved," said Marwan.
With the ratification of the Hajj Bill, the absorption of hajj volition beryllium transferred from the Ministry of Religious Affairs to the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah starting successful 2026. The Ministry of Religious Affairs volition nary longer negociate the method implementation of hajj, but volition absorption connected spiritual guidance for the community.
"(The Ministry of Religious Affairs' tasks) inactive see spiritual education, Islamic religion, Christian religion, and others, guidance for the assemblage inactive exists," said Marwan astatine the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, connected Friday.
The person from the National Awakening Party ensures that the Hajj Bill volition service arsenic legitimacy for separating the authorization of the caller hajj organizers. He stated that this instrumentality volition forestall overlaps betwixt the tasks of BP Haji and the Ministry of Religious Affairs. "Especially for hajj and umrah, which person been separated."
The Draft Law connected the Third Amendment to Law Number 8 of 2019 concerning the Management of Hajj and Umrah is presently 1 of the priorities of the National Legislation Program 2025-2029. The House aims to ratify the Hajj Bill successful a plenary league connected August 26, 2025. After its ratification, the authorities volition contented a statesmanlike regularisation (perpres) to put the organizational operation and enactment procedures of the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah.
Dian Rahma Fika, Ervana Trikarinaputri, and Sapto Yunus besides contributed to the penning of this article.
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