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View all search resultsPT Permodalan Nasional Madani (PNM) once again expressed its appreciation for outstanding employees and distinguished customers by offering them pilgrimages through the PNM Employee Reward program. In this latest edition of the program, the winners were given the opportunity to visit Jerusalem as a token of appreciation from the company.
Demand for Mideast tours from Indonesian travelers is returning slowly as the Hamas-Israel war continues into 2024, though the head of a pilgrimage tour association notes that demand for such packages had been relatively unaffected by the conflict.
The long haj queue leads to a high number of elderly pilgrims, who put their health and lives at risk during the pilgrimage to Mecca, according to Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy.
An elderly Indonesian man who had been missing in Saudi Arabia for almost two weeks has been found dead at a hospital in Mecca, Indonesian haj officials have said, as they continue their search for two other missing pilgrims.
Islam's holiest site is expected to host more than two million worshippers from 160 countries during the annual rites that could break attendance records, with 1.6 million foreigners already arrived by late Friday.
Thirty-two Buddhist monks have arrived in Magelang, Central Java, home of the famous Borobudur temple, where they plan to join ceremonies to celebrate Waisak that marks the birth, enlightenment and death of Gautama Buddha, on Sunday.
In 2019, the last year before the pandemic struck, some 2.6 million people performed the haj. The kingdom allowed only limited numbers from its residents in 2020 and 2021 before it welcomed back one million foreign pilgrims in 2022.
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