Journal of Islamic Business and Economic Review (JIBER)
Vol 3, No 2 (2020): July, 2020

Productive Waqf and People Economic Empowerment in Indonesia

Gatot Bintoro Putro Aji (Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Intan Lampung)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jul 2020

Abstract

Productive empowerment of waqf is an effort to develop and manage waqf assets through various empowerment programs so that their usefulness is sustainable and waqf can be distributed evenly. In 2019, the Indonesian Waqf Board (BWI) stated that the potential of waqf assets in Indonesia annually reaches 2000 trillion with waqf land area reaching 420,000 hectares. Meanwhile, based on data from the Ministry of Religion Waqf Information System (2019), the area of waqf land in Indonesia reached 51,480.01 hectares spread over 382,722 locations. Of this amount, only 61.09% of them have been certified and 73% of waqf assets are intended only for places of worshipand not yet productive.The purpose of this study is to find out what efforts can be made in optimizing the empowerment of productive waqf in improving the economic welfare of the community. There are several important aspects as an effort in realizing the success of the community's economic prosperity through the empowerment of productive waqf, that is: Optimizing the role of Nazir and Optimizing the empowerment of productive waqf.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jiber

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Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

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Journal of Islamic Business and Economic Review (JIBER) is a peer reviewed, open access with 2 issues per year. We also assist International and National Conference to publish their conference papers. Journal of Islamic Business and Economic Review (JIBER) covers all disciplines Islamic Economics, ...