Aidul Qurban is symbolic of efforts and attempts to get rid of animal attitudes and characteristics
Author: Jacob Ereste
Freelance Journalist
The essence of performing the Hajj is the purification of the soul, a form of total submission to Allah and strengthening the solidarity of Muslims worldwide. And spiritually and socially, the pilgrimage has the value of tawhid — the oneness of Allah — as absolute devotion to Allah without partners. Apart from that, the Hajj is tazkiyatun nafs – purification of the soul – as an inner journey to cleanse oneself of sin and excessive ego.
In carrying out the Hajj – the congregation’s costumes are the same in shape and material as the completeness of the ihram – depicting static equality and the same social status before God. Then the ritual ceremony imitates what was done by Prophet Ibrahim, who was willing to sacrifice as a form of obedience to Allah, willing to slaughter his child, namely Prophet Ismail, who was replaced by a goat, as a symbol of efforts to get rid of animal attitudes and behavior in humans.
The togetherness of Muslims from all over the world is a symbol of exemplary harmony that needs to be built and maintained together, because it has unlimited goodness. Because the Hajj pilgrimage is part of a spiritual transformation that has enormous benefits.
The number of Hajj pilgrims from Indonesia alone in 2025 will reach 221,000 people. The details are 203,320 regular Hajj pilgrims, 10,166 elderly priority Hajj pilgrims, 685 guides and 1,572 Hajj officers from the regions. Apart from that, there are also 17,680 special Hajj pilgrims.
The largest number of Hajj pilgrims from Indonesia in 2025 came from West Java Province 38,723 people. East Java 35,252 people. Central Java 30,477 people. Banten 9,461 people. North Sumatra 8,328 people. DKI Jakarta 7,936 people. South Sulawesi 7,272 people. Lampung 7,050 people, South Sumatra 7,023 people and Riau 5,047 people. This is the order of the largest number of hajj pilgrims from 10 provinces in Indonesia. Even so, the quota of hajj pilgrims from each province has been determined by the Ministry of Religion based on the number of Muslim residents and the length of the list of prospective hajj pilgrims from each province.
In fact, according to the Atlantica Institut Nusantara’s research, the cost for hajj pilgrims from Indonesia is charged Rp56,046,172. This amount is still subsidized from the value of the hajj fund benefits that are deposited in the Bank. And the amount of costs to perform the hajj pilgrimage also still depends on the embarkation of the flight to Mecca.
The accommodation obtained by the hajj pilgrims includes round-trip plane tickets from the Indonesian embarkation to Saudi Arabia. Then accommodation while in Mecca and Medina with a 3-star hotel. Including local transportation with AC buses between cities. Of course, consumption in Mecca and Medina and during the peak of the Hajj in Arafah, Musdhalifah to Mina.
No less important is the service of clinics and medical personnel for Indonesian Hajj pilgrims who must have experienced difficulties when they had to feel the hot air temperature above normal. What is certain is the guidance and guidance before the departure of the Hajj, then the equipment and insurance for life and accidents during the Hajj. Even at the end, they were still given the opportunity to make a pilgrimage in Medina and other historical places in the Holy Land and its surroundings.
And Muslims in Indonesia, on Friday, June 6, 2025, celebrated Eid al-Adha which was no less lively and slaughtered sacrificial animals to be distributed to those who were considered entitled to receive the meat of the sacrificial animals, as an expression of efforts and efforts to eliminate the attitudes and characteristics of greedy and greedy animals.
Pecenongan, June 5, 2025
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