REPRESENTATIVE Minister of Hajj and Umrah Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak mentioned that Indonesia acquired a ration of 221,000 quota for potential pilgrims within the 2026 season. That quantity was stagnant in comparison with Hajj 2025.

“Our quota stays (like) this 12 months round 221,000 pilgrims will probably be dispatched to Saudi Arabia,” Dahnil mentioned on the Workplace of the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, Central Jakarta, on Tuesday, September 30, 2025.

The Gerindra Occasion politician mentioned that the allotment of the quota was divided for normal hajj as a lot as 92 p.c and particular Hajj by 8 p.c. “It implies that there are round 203,000 for normal pilgrims, then round 17,000 for particular pilgrims,” ​​he mentioned.

Dahnil has not been in a position to confirm whether or not the federal government will negotiate Arabs to ask for extra pilgrims. Announcement of the Hajj season quota 2026 was delayed. The quota distribution needs to be introduced on July 11, 2025.

The late announcement of the pilgrimage quota was then allegedly associated to the difficulty of decreasing the quota of the impression of a variety of issues on the Hajj 2025. Nonetheless, the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, which was nonetheless a Hajj Organizing Company, denied the difficulty.

Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak who was then the consultant of BP Haji mentioned he didn’t know what brought about the announcement of the Hajj quota. He defined, the Minister of Hajj and Umrah Saudi Arabia will go to Indonesia on 4-6 August.

“We do not know, perhaps it is going to be conveyed at that momentum or what it seems like. However clearly till at the moment I have no idea why it hasn’t been introduced,” Dahnil mentioned when met on the Parliament Complicated, Senayan, Jakarta, on Tuesday, July 1525.