MAKKAH–Pemerintah Arab Saudi tetap menolak permohonan Indonesia untuk tidak menggunakan perluasan wilayah Mina (Mina Jadid) . Pemerintah Kerajaan Arab Saudi memutuskan bahwa Mina Jadid tetap digunakan sebagai tempat mabit (bermalam) bagi sebagian jamaah asal Indonesia.
”Permintaan Indonesia untuk tak menggunakan Mina Jadid ditolak oleh Pemerintah Arab Saudi. Kami sendiri tak diberitahu alasan penolakan tersebut,” kata Kepala PPIH Daerah Kerja Madinah, Akhmad Jauhari, Sabtu (5/10), dikutip dari Media Center Haji (MCH).
“Dari total 48 maktab yang disediakan untuk Indonesia, 8 maktab di antaranya berada di wilayah Mina Jadid. Artinya, 8 × 3.250 orang, itulah total jamaah asal Indonesia yang akan mabit di Mina Jadid” kata Jauhari.
Jauhari menambahkan, pada tahun ini kapasitas setiap maktab mengalami penggemukan. Hal itu mengakibatkan adanya rekonfigurasi penomoran maktab jamaah haji Indonesia di Mina. ”Jumlah maktabnya tetap 48. Namun, kapasitas setiap maktab bertambah, dari semula 2.800 orang menjadi 3.250 orang,” ujarnya.
Dengan adanya rekonfigurasi, kata dia, penomoran maktab tidak lagi berurut dari 1 sampai dengan 48 maktab. Karena penambahan kapasitas, distribusi jamaah dalam satu maktab akan ‘memakan’ jatah maktab berikutnya. ”Di Mina itu, areal maktab tak berubah bahkan sudah dipagari. Kapasitasnya pun tetap untuk 2.800 orang. Akibatnya, ada beberapa nomor maktab yang hilang,” ucapnya.
Jauhari mencontohkan, sebagian jamaah yang bermukim di maktab 1 akan tinggal di perkemahan yang sebenarnya sudah masuk ke maktab 2, demikian seterusnya.
Oleh karena itu, nanti, ada nomor maktab yang ’hilang’ karena lokasinya sudah penuh. Maktab-maktab inilah yang kemudian berubah, tidak lagi sesuai dengan hasil qur’ah (undian). ”Totalnya, terdapat 15 maktab yang berubah,
Baltimore Residents Away From Turmoil Consider Their Role
BALTIMORE — In the afternoons, the streets of Locust Point are clean and nearly silent. In front of the rowhouses, potted plants rest next to steps of brick or concrete. There is a shopping center nearby with restaurants, and a grocery store filled with fresh foods.
And the National Guard and the police are largely absent. So, too, residents say, are worries about what happened a few miles away on April 27 when, in a space of hours, parts of this city became riot zones.
“They’re not our reality,” Ashley Fowler, 30, said on Monday at the restaurant where she works. “They’re not what we’re living right now. We live in, not to be racist, white America.”
As Baltimore considers its way forward after the violent unrest brought by the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died of injuries he suffered while in police custody, residents in its predominantly white neighborhoods acknowledge that they are sometimes struggling to understand what beyond Mr. Gray’s death spurred the turmoil here. For many, the poverty and troubled schools of gritty West Baltimore are distant troubles, glimpsed only when they pass through the area on their way somewhere else.
And so neighborhoods of Baltimore are facing altogether different reckonings after Mr. Gray’s death. In mostly black communities like Sandtown-Winchester, where some of the most destructive rioting played out last week, residents are hoping businesses will reopen and that the police will change their strategies. But in mostly white areas like Canton and Locust Point, some residents wonder what role, if any, they should play in reimagining stretches of Baltimore where they do not live.
“Most of the people are kind of at a loss as to what they’re supposed to do,” said Dr. Richard Lamb, a dentist who has practiced in the same Locust Point office for nearly 39 years. “I listen to the news reports. I listen to the clergymen. I listen to the facts of the rampant unemployment and the lack of opportunities in the area. Listen, I pay my taxes. Exactly what can I do?”
And in Canton, where the restaurants have clever names like Nacho Mama’s and Holy Crepe Bakery and Café, Sara Bahr said solutions seemed out of reach for a proudly liberal city.
“I can only imagine how frustrated they must be,” said Ms. Bahr, 36, a nurse who was out with her 3-year-old daughter, Sally. “I just wish I knew how to solve poverty. I don’t know what to do to make it better.”
The day of unrest and the overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations that followed led to hundreds of arrests, often for violations of the curfew imposed on the city for five consecutive nights while National Guard soldiers patrolled the streets. Although there were isolated instances of trouble in Canton, the neighborhood association said on its website, many parts of southeast Baltimore were physically untouched by the tumult.
Tensions in the city bubbled anew on Monday after reports that the police had wounded a black man in Northwest Baltimore. The authorities denied those reports and sent officers to talk with the crowds that gathered while other officers clutching shields blocked traffic at Pennsylvania and West North Avenues.
Lt. Col. Melvin Russell, a community police officer, said officers had stopped a man suspected of carrying a handgun and that “one of those rounds was spent.”
Colonel Russell said officers had not opened fire, “so we couldn’t have shot him.”
The colonel said the man had not been injured but was taken to a hospital as a precaution. Nearby, many people stood in disbelief, despite the efforts by the authorities to quash reports they described as “unfounded.”
Monday’s episode was a brief moment in a larger drama that has yielded anger and confusion. Although many people said they were familiar with accounts of the police harassing or intimidating residents, many in Canton and Locust Point said they had never experienced it themselves. When they watched the unrest, which many protesters said was fueled by feelings that they lived only on Baltimore’s margins, even those like Ms. Bahr who were pained by what they saw said they could scarcely comprehend the emotions associated with it.
But others, like Lambi Vasilakopoulos, who runs a casual restaurant in Canton, said they were incensed by what unfolded last week.
“What happened wasn’t called for. Protests are one thing; looting is another thing,” he said, adding, “We’re very frustrated because we’re the ones who are going to pay for this.”
There were pockets of optimism, though, that Baltimore would enter a period of reconciliation.
“I’m just hoping for peace,” Natalie Boies, 53, said in front of the Locust Point home where she has lived for 50 years. “Learn to love each other; be patient with each other; find justice; and care.”
A skeptical Mr. Vasilakopoulos predicted tensions would worsen.
“It cannot be fixed,” he said. “It’s going to get worse. Why? Because people don’t obey the laws. They don’t want to obey them.”
But there were few fears that the violence that plagued West Baltimore last week would play out on these relaxed streets. The authorities, Ms. Fowler said, would make sure of that.
“They kept us safe here,” she said. “I didn’t feel uncomfortable when I was in my house three blocks away from here. I knew I was going to be O.K. because I knew they weren’t going to let anyone come and loot our properties or our businesses or burn our cars.”