Jakarta, May 8 -- Indonesia's Ministry of Religious Affairs sent off a total of 437 officers of the Indonesian Hajj Organizing Committee (PPIH) to Saudi Arabia to make preparations for welcoming Indonesian Hajj pilgrims.

In Jakarta on Wednesday, the ministry's Inspector General Faisal Ali Hasyim officiated the deployment of 240 Hajj officers to be stationed at PPIH's Medina Working Region, 84 officers at the Airport Working Region, five officers at the Jeddah Hajj Affairs Office, and 108 medics.

"All officers should carry out their duties in synergy. There will be no success without cohesiveness. We must boost the satisfactory rate of Indonesian Hajj pilgrims," he remarked while chairing the send-off roll call.

In his speech, the inspe...