The criticism from Indonesia, the Muslim world's most populous country, comes as its officials, as well as those in India and Pakistan, say that Saudi officials gave foreign diplomats some 1,100 pictures of those killed in last week's disaster.
The Saudi Health Ministry's latest figures, released Saturday, put the toll at 769 people killed and 934 injured in the stampede. Saudi officials have yet to comment on the discrepancy in the toll as countries around the world struggle to identify their dead.
Lukman Hakim Saifudin, Indonesia's religious affairs minister, said in a statement yesterday that Indonesians did not have free access to hospitals to search for injured Indonesians.
"The Saudi Arabian government has its own regulation, tradition, culture and procedures in dealing with such cases," Saifuddin said from Mecca. "This has not allowed us enough freedom in our effort to identify" the victims.
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Iran, Saudi Arabia's regional Shiite arch rival, has criticised the Sunni kingdom over the hajj disaster and daily protests have taken place near the Saudi Embassy in Tehran. Iranian state media also have suggested that the death toll in the disaster was far higher, without providing any corroboration.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who criticised Saudi Arabia for what he called "incompetence and mismanagement" of the haj at the UN General Assembly on Monday, cancelled his planned events in New York on Tuesday to return to Tehran.