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Jakarta (VOI News) - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is continously doing its best for the safety of Umrah pilgrims from all over the world including Indonesia. Related to the spread of the corona virus (Covid-19), until now the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is still suspending the implementation of the pilgrimage for pilgrims around the world who want to perform Umrah. This was stated by the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Indonesia Essam bin Abed al-Thaqafi in a special interview with Voice of Indonesia at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Jakarta on Wednesday (11/03). According to Ambassador Essam bin Abed al-Thaqafi, his side was still waiting for the results of a concrete effort by the Saudi Arabian authority to prevent the spread of the corona virus (Covid-19)

“All what the Saudi government  is doing is because the safety of pilgrims  and the safety of those  are performing Umroh and Hajj  to Saudi Arabia. Indonesia is part of the world . When we suspend  umroh temporarily, it means for the security  and for the safe of those who are coming  to Mecca and Medina. You know  millions of people around the world come to  Mecca and Medina. Now Saudi Arabia is doing the  best  just to make Mecca and Medina  free of the disease  and hopefully Insya Allah very soon everything will be back to normal. Hopefully in Ramadhan  we’ll start receive Umroh performance,” said Ambassador Essam bin Abed al-Thaqafi.

In addition, Ambassador Essam bin Abed al-Thaqafi said that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not been able to decide about the implementation of the Hajj in 2020 as it is going to be held in the next 4 months. (VOI / Ahmad Faisal / AHM)