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        "id": 1044216,
        "msgid": "troops-to-support-haj-operation-1447893297",
        "date": "1996-03-09 00:00:00",
        "title": "Troops to support haj operation",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Troops to support haj operation JAKARTA (JP): To ensure order and peace, the government will use troops to help send some 195,000 Indonesians on haj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. The massive haj operation, which will begin on March 23, has always been marred by chaos, at the lodgings where pilgrims are accommodated before leaving, at the airports of departure, and at their lodgings in Saudi Arabia.",
        "content": "<p>Troops to support haj operation<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): To ensure order and peace, the government will<br>\nuse troops to help send some 195,000 Indonesians on haj<br>\npilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The massive haj operation, which will begin on March 23, has<br>\nalways been marred by chaos, at the lodgings where pilgrims are<br>\naccommodated before leaving, at the airports of departure, and at<br>\ntheir lodgings in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>A senior official of the Ministry of Religious Affairs said<br>\nthat this year, for the first time, troops will be brought in to<br>\nensure order.<\/p>\n<p>Abdurrosyad, secretary of the Director General for Islam and<br>\nHaj Affairs, declined to say how many soldiers would be involved<br>\nbut say they would be present at every phase of the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, the haj operation this year will be more orderly,<br>\nAbdurrosyad said.<\/p>\n<p>Observers have said that the task of sending pilgrims from<br>\nIndonesia to Saudi Arabia is as complex, if not more so, than the<br>\ndeployment of the U.S.-led multinational force to Saudi Arabia to<br>\nexpel the Iraqis from Kuwait during the Gulf War in 1991. While<br>\nthis may be true in terms of logistics, the pilgrims do not have<br>\nthe same discipline as the military, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Abdurrosyad said the Ministry of Religious Affairs, which<br>\ncoordinates the haj operation, has also benefited from management<br>\nconcepts used by the Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>The first flights taking Indonesian pilgrims to Saudi Arabia<br>\nwill leave on March 23. The pilgrimage will peak on April 28 with<br>\nIdul Adha (Sacrifice) Day. Afterwards, the government will have<br>\nto bring home those pilgrims in a similarly arduous operation.<\/p>\n<p>The 195,000 pilgrims registered by the government will be<br>\ndivided into 453 flights which will depart from five designated<br>\nairports: Halim Perdanakusumah, Jakarta (195 groups), Juanda,<br>\nSurabaya (118), Polonia, Medan (35), Hasanuddin, Ujungpandang<br>\n(66) and Sepinggan, Balikpapan (39).<\/p>\n<p>Garuda Indonesia, appointed to shift the pilgrims, is using 24<br>\nplanes to do so. (01)<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/troops-to-support-haj-operation-1447893297",
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