TREND CIVITAS AKADEMIKA UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA DALAM MEMBAYAR ZAKAT

Abstract

Empowerment of the poor is a long run program. Modern zakat institution is one of
 the zakat managements to have long run programs than the mosque takmir. As
 academicians, lectures and professors at UIN Sunan Kalijaga knew the existence and
 performance of modern zakat management. The research was aimed to explore zakat
 payment trends conducted by the lecturers and professors. First, the attitude of those
 lecturers and professors in giving their zakat either fitrah or maal; whether the
 payment was done by giving direct cash to zakat institutions or to mustahiq and the
 mosque takmir. Second, reasons that lay beyond choosing the payment methods. The
 results indicated the respondents tended to conserve the traditional method in giving
 zakat to the poor and the mosque. From 95 respondents surveyed, fifty five
 respondents paid their zakat fitrah and maal directly to individuals because they
 witness living poor individuals in their neighboorhood, and fourty respondents chose
 the modern method. And, from 95 respondents, twelve of the did not trust zakat
 institutions. Therefore, they paid their zakat directly to the poor.
 Keywords: Trend, zakat, institution, mosque, individual.
 
 
 Kata-kata kunci: trend, zakat, lembaga, masjid, individu