Cempaka Business and Economy: Ministry Admits Dipping Into Hajj Fund Accounts

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Monday, January 24, 2011

Ministry Admits Dipping Into Hajj Fund Accounts

Jakarta Globe, Nurfika Osman | January 23, 2011

The Ministry of Religious Affairs said on Sunday that it had used part of the interest earned from hajj funds to pay for its own officials’ trips to Mecca.

This followed Indonesia Corruption Watch’s claim on Friday that the ministry had used hajj funds to pay bonuses to officials, as well as to cover their transportation, accommodation and lodging costs while on the hajj in Saudi Arabia.

Abdul Ghafur Djawahir, secretary of the ministry’s hajj directorate, told the Jakarta Globe that his office needed to dip into the funds due to budget constraints.

“We use that money to cover the costs of officials who help us in Mecca, Medina and the Plain of Arafah, because what we get from the state budget is not enough to cover our needs,” he said.

“Besides, we believe the people who can afford to go on the hajj are those who are financially secure, even though we realize many people had to save for years to go on the pilgrimage.”

He said, however, that the bulk of the funds used to finance officials’ trips to Mecca came from the ministry budget.

If the ministry did not use some of the interest from the funds, he added, “we’d never be able to offer a satisfactory hajj service.”

Every year, thousands of pilgrims pay the ministry a deposit to register for the pilgrimage. The fee was previously set at Rp 20 million ($2,200) but was raised to Rp 25 million last year.

The fees are deposited in the ministry’s accounts at state-owned banks, and can be stored for years before a pilgrim gets a slot. The total fund is now estimated to hold Rp 1.2 trillion.

Hopefuls have to wait several years before they can go on the state-organized pilgrimage due to travel quotas under the Hajj Management Law.

As of August 2010, the ministry said there were about 1.17 million people on the waiting list.

Abdul said the ministry hoped to get more money from the state budget for the hajj next year.

“We’re in the process of drafting an amendment to the law on hajj fund management that will fix some loopholes,” he said.

The amendment is already on the House of Representatives’ priority list, he added.

Last year, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) issued a report identifying 48 flaws in the ministry’s management of the hajj in 2009.

One of the major problems cited in the report was the lack of transparency in the payment of interest made on fees from pilgrimage applicants.

At the time, Abdul told the Globe that the KPK’s findings just pointed to weaknesses in the system that needed to be fixed and which were not related to graft.

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