PROFILE OF ZAKAT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BENEFICIARIES IN SIAK

Abstract

Summary

• BAZNAS Siak District disburses the zakat productive through Zakat Community Development (ZCD) program by providing assistance in the form of farm animals such as goats and catfish seeds to the selected mustahik.


• 75 percent of ZCD in Siak beneficiaries are males and most of them are husbands. Whereas, the females who join the program are only about one-tenth, where most of them, that is 39 of 41 beneficiaries, are wives.


• 375 of 400 beneficiaries are in productive age, while the rest are the elderly people whose age are over 64 years.


• 5 percent of the beneficiaries are those who still have spouses, while the other 8.25 percent are single parents. Only 1.25 percent beneficiaries are those who have not married.


• Most of the beneficiaries of ZCD in Siak are less educated.


• 100 of 400 beneficiaries work as farmers, while the other 38 people work as sellers. The other 213 beneficiaries do other jobs.


• 50 percent of beneficiaries have one to four members in the family.


• 25 percent of the ZCD beneficiaries in Siak have a household income ranged below Rp 2 million.


• 5 percent of the beneficiaries have household expenditure between Rp 1.000.001 - Rp 2.000.000 per month.The other 29.25 percent expend between Rp 2.000.001 – Rp 3.000.000 per month.


• The highest expenditure is the daily consumption which reached 45.47 percent of total household expenditure, followed by cigarettes of 9.37 percent.The third lowest expenditures are entertainment, medical drugs, and medical consultation which only reached 0.46 percent, 0.19 percent, and 0.17 percent respectively.