DPR's Hajj Supervisory Team to Monitor Services for Elderly and Disabled Pilgrims

The DPR’s Hajj Supervisory Team for 2026 has committed to prioritising monitoring services for elderly, disabled, and female pilgrims.

Member of the DPR’s Hajj Supervisory Team for 2026, Maman Imanulhaq, stated that they will do their best to ensure the availability of staff to serve these three categories of pilgrims, especially the elderly and disabled.

Maman said that regarding disabled pilgrims, they have received information that special transportation has been provided for them.

“We certainly appreciate this,” he said before departing for Mecca on Sunday (17/5).

Meanwhile, for the elderly group, they are still monitoring the services provided.

The team hopes that staff serving elderly pilgrims will prioritise psychological communication.

“Respect for the elderly through more humane methods is also something we hope can be prioritised,” he said.

In addition to prioritising these three groups of pilgrims, member of the DPR’s Hajj Supervisory Team 2026, Selly Andriany Gantina, stated shortly before departing for Mecca on Saturday (16/5) that they will also focus on monitoring the provision of facilities for pilgrims.

Monitoring includes accommodation and hotel facilities for pilgrims.

She said that the supervisory team has received reports of inadequate hotel facilities provided for pilgrims.

The inadequacy of these hotel services will be one of the important issues highlighted by the DPR’s Hajj Supervisory Team 2026.

“There are several hotels that reportedly are not suitable and should not be used in the coming years. These are some of the things we will pay attention to,” she said on Saturday (16/5).

In addition to hotel suitability, they also highlighted the issue of overcapacity in the rooms provided for pilgrims.

According to her, in the contracts made by the Ministry of Hajj with vendors, each room should only have a capacity of four beds.

However, based on initial findings and information obtained by the DPR’s Hajj Supervisory Team 2026, the number of beds provided in one room actually reaches six.

“The information we received at the DPR is that some pilgrims are experiencing overcapacity, especially in sectors 4 and 9,” she said.

In addition to hotel services, the DPR’s Hajj Supervisory Team also highlighted the provision of food or catering services for pilgrims.

The DPR’s Hajj Supervisory Team has received information that although the catering service provides a variety of Indonesian dishes, it is still quite monotonous for pilgrims.

“This will also be our basis for evaluation,” she said.