Indonesia Zakat Outlook 2017 BOOKS 2016

Abstract

The zakat area is one of the primary sector of economic philantrophy in the Muslim country. As the third pillar of Islam, payment of zakat is an obligation for an eligible Muslim to purify his wealth by distributing it to the mustahik based on the specific criteria. Not only does it serve to provide funds for mustahik, the zakat also acts as balancing instrument for the economy. In this point, zakat can potentially meet the resource gap for poverty alleviation in the nations. Generally speaking, the ultimate goal of zakat is to transform the mustahik into muzakki within a definite time frame. In the context of alleviating poverty, zakat in Indonesia has the huge potential to contribute in this area. Since Indonesia has the biggest Muslim population in the world which is 85 percent of total population in Indonesia or 216.66 million population (BPS, 2015), zakat fund can be collected optimally from the Muslims. It can also be portrayed from the increasing of zakat, alms, and sadaqah (zakat, infaq, sadaqah or ZIS) collection fund since 2002 until 2015