JOURNAL OF INDONESIAN ISLAM
Vol 7, No 2 (2013)

THE POLITICS OF ZAKAT MANAGEMENT IN INDONESIA: The Tension Between BAZ and LAZ

Saidurrahman Saidurrahman (Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Sumatera Utara, Medan)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Dec 2013

Abstract

The new Act of zakat management No. 23 Year 2011 has changed the position of private zakat management (LAZ; Lembaga Amil Zakat) which has no clear relationship with semi-governmental zakat management in the Act of Zakat Management No. 38 year 1999. This paper found that many debates arise especially on the position of private zakat management that has to work under the coordination of semi-governmental zakat management. Many data has shown that private zakat management has reached tremendous achievement compared to the semi-governmental zakat management. Based on this fact, this paper argues that zakat institutions in Indonesia needs to be managed properly without sacrificing the social capital i.e. the participation of private zakat management. This paper proposes that private zakat management needs to be given more spaces in optimizing the collecting and distributing zakat funds in Indonesia. The answer for this problem is building the regulator body for zakat management in Indonesia.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jiis

Publisher

Subject

Religion Social Sciences

Description

The Journal of Indonesian Islam (printed ISSN 1978-6301 and online ISSN 2355-6994) is a refereed academic journal published biannually by the Post­gra­duate Program (PPs) and the Institute for the Study of Religion and Society (LSAS), the State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Sunan Ampel ...