The Role of Zakat in Poverty Reduction (Case Study: Productive Zakat Program at the National Amil Zakat Agency)

Abstract

This study aims to determine the extent of the role of productive zakat in empowering underprivileged people identified as mustahik in entrepreneurship. Zakat intended for mustahik can be used as business capital where the business developed by mustahik is generally still small scale, which is not accessed by bank financial institutions. The mentoring process includes planning, implementation, supervision and control and program evaluation, becoming one of the amil zakat agency programs in managing productive zakat, so that it is expected to create economic circulation, increase community business productivity, increase income / economic results, and be sustainable.

The methodology used in this research is descriptive qualitative method to see the effect of productive zakat on the empowerment of the poor through the poverty index. This research consists of primary data and secondary data. Primary data is obtained from survey results or the results of distributing questionnaires, and conducting in-depth interviews with productive Zakat program managers at Baznas and Mustahik as participants in community empowerment programs through productive zakat. While secondary data is obtained from BAZNAS Program Reports on the internet, some literature, articles both magazines, journals, newspapers and the internet. The results of the study show that overall mustahik assess the productive zakat program by Baznas has been running very well.

Keywords: Productive Zakat, BAZNAS, Musthaik, Income