Bogor to pay for

Bogor to pay for
haj pilgrimages

BOGOR: Mayor Diani Boediarto announced on Tuesday a plan to
pay for communal prayer leaders in mosques in Bogor to go on the
haj pilgrimage later this year.

"A team established to select those who will go this year has
chosen two imam ... Compared to previous years, we will send
fewer officials," he told hundreds of Islamic preachers and
leaders at Bogor Grand Mosque on Tuesday.

Municipal spokesperson Dewi Kurnia told Antara that the
administration was also considering paying the stipends of those
responsible for looking after 75 mosques, to be designated later
by the administration, out of the 2005 Bogor budget. --JP