224.000 Indonesian Pilgrims Leaving To Mecca

      Jakarta – Indonesia (18 Oktober 2010 ), Indonesian pilgrims start leaving for Mecca from 11 embarkation provided. This year the number of pilgrims who went to the Holy Land of  Mecca as many as 224 thousand people including officers pilgrimage. As in previous years, pilgrims from Indonesia is the largest of other countries.
      The group flew (kloter) first pilgrims from four embarkation, the embarkation of Aceh, Medan, Makassar, and Banjarmasin, on Monday, October 11, 2010 deployment to the Holy Land. While the Minister of Religious Affairs H Suryadharma Ali and North Sumatra Governor Syamsul Arifin and a number of officers will release the first kloter embarkation Medan.
      To kloter one, in addition to four of embarkation will be dispatched the following day (Tuesday, 12/10), such as embarkation 1 Jakarta, Solo, Surabaya, Padang, Batam, Palembang, and Balikpapan.
       Departure of pilgrims to the Holy Land was divided into two periods: first period from 11 October to 4 November 2010, the pilgrims would land at King Abdul Aziz Airport in Jeddah or Madinah Airport Amir Muhammad. Pilgrims from Jeddah to Mecca but not directly to Medina to pray Arbain pilgrimage (prayer 40 times in a row). While the pilgrim who came on in the second wave began to depart on 27 October to 10 November, so they arrived at King Abdul Aziz Airport in Jeddah directly toward Mecca, to prepare for the procession perform the pilgrimage. It is estimated that standing at Arafat 9 Dhu al-Hijjah 1431H will fall on Monday, 15 November 2010.
       To this day, Monday, October 18, 2010, has about 35 thousand pilgrims arrived in Medina. Of these pilgrim who died as many as 4 people and hurt 21 people.