Analysis of Effects of Zakat, Inflation, General Allocation of Funds (DAU), and Direct Cash Assistance (BLT) to Poverty in Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims to determine and analyze the effect of zakat, inflation, general allocation funds, and direct cash assistance on poverty in Indonesia. This research was conducted using secondary data with time series data, namely the period 2018-2022 which includes data on the distribution of zakat funds, the inflation rate, general allocation funds, data on the distribution of direct cash assistance and data on the number and percentage of the poor population in Indonesia. The number of samples tested was 60 data which were processed using Microsoft Excel and E-Views 12. This study used a quantitative approach with multiple linear regression models which explained the relationship between variables by using hypothesis testing using IBM SPSS Statistics 25. The results of this study indicated that variables zakat and direct cash assistance have no effect on poverty. Meanwhile, inflation and general allocation funds partially have a negative and significant effect on poverty. However, the simultaneous test shows that all independent variables simultaneously or jointly influence poverty in Indonesia.