The Haj quota for countries set by the Saudi Arabian government is based on the population and does not have anything to do with politics, said Fuziah Salleh, the new deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.

The quota was 0.01 per cent of the population and, as such, the quota for Malaysia for this year’s pilgrimage was 30,200, she said to reporters before officiating at the presentation of Excellence Service Awards and the Dakwah Youth Fellowship Graduation events in Putrajaya today.

Tabung Haji,…