Abstract
Zakat is one of the social financial sources in Islamic Economics. One of society segment lived in Sorong city, West Papua, Indonesia, is Moslem nomads, which is in this study, categorized as Muzzaki. They have contributed to the BAZNAS (Badan Zakat Nasional) Sorong city. Nevertheless, they still opt to choose the distribution of the fund, either they want to distribute to their origin or Sorong (as they aee work there). The determination of distribution location is a part of their behavior. The main problem proposed in this study is to define whether the behaviors in determine the location of distribution is well justiced. If this behavior accomplished the sense of justice it is supposed support the collection of Zakat in Sorong city. Data presented are collected from the quoestionaire and interviews. Respondents’ backgrounds are variety and they have competency in zakat field. This study is using Islamic Economic Theory approach. Conjunction with the purpose of this study, to measure the sense of justice we use theory construct modeling. We found that from the aspect of their action related to the duty of Zakat in Sorong city is supporting the justice of zakat distribution. Nonetheless, the score of minimum is 62.06% and maximum score is 74.13%, which is less fair. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3p265
Highlights
The definition of nomads is a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place in order to find the fittest living at their own terms
There is no specific amount of nomad’ zakat that has been distributed on certain mechanism by BAZNAS, it is undeniable fact that the income structure of Sorong City is driven by the nomads
In this study we have some research problem related to behavior of Nomads in paying zakah in Sorong city, they are: - Is the behavior of the nomads in meeting zakat duties in Sorong City is happened distribute zakat fairly so that this attitude will support zakat collection through BAZNAS Sorong City? - Is the zakat dutys knowledge sufficiency amongst nomads support the fairness of zakat distribution? - Is the attitude of nomads in Sorong City support the zakat distribution fairly? - Is the deed of nomads in Sorong City support the zakat distribution fairly
Summary
The definition of nomads is a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place in order to find the fittest living at their own terms. Back to the data given, from the number of structure types of income funds collected by BAZNAS, it is showed that zakat fitrah achieve 60.38%, zakat mal 22.72% and infaq/shadaqah 16.46%. There is no specific amount of nomad’ zakat that has been distributed on certain mechanism by BAZNAS, it is undeniable fact that the income structure of Sorong City is driven by the nomads. Moslem residents in Sorong City still have the opportunity to receive their zakat (Asnaf) as generally stated, the the human development index of Sorong people is still at concern. They have tendency to counting on their consumption to the nature (Stepanus Malak, 2014).
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