Algeria to benefit from the Indonesian experience in pilgrimage

The religious affairs minister Abdellah Ghoulam Allah has sent a delegation of managers from the ministry and the Pilgrimage National Office to Indonesia in order to benefit from the experience of this country in the organization of such a religious event.

• The managers will follow training sessions aimed at enhancing their organizational capacities with the view to diminishing the problems faced by the Algerian pilgrims each year during their trip to the Holly land.
• During a working session held yesterday with the Indonesian ambassador and the Tunisian one, the Algerian minister agreed with his interlocutors to send managers specialized in theology to the larges Muslim country in the world.
• The training period of an Indonesian last two years long before going to pilgrimage; as for those who fail to pass the exam, they have to wait several years before acceding to the privilege of participating in the training program again.
• The minister has raised the issue of the extension works conducted by the Saudi authorities on the holy site that stretched the distance between the core of the holly place and the dwelling places of the pilgrims by dozens of kilometres, causing 29 deaths among the Algerian pilgrims, mostly old and sick ones.