Abstract
Poverty is one of the main problems facing Indonesia to date, as the capital of Central Java City Semarang also can not be separated from this poverty problem. Although the number of poor people from year to year decline, but in terms of proportion to the total population of Semarang City, the number of poor people reached 20%. One instrument that can help reduce poverty is zakat. This study aims to analyze the impact of zakat as poverty reduction with zakat approach and with zakat. The analytical tool used in this research is poverty indicator consisting of headcount ratio, poverty gap index, income index gap, Sen index and FGT (Foster, Greer, Thorbecke) index and CIBEST Index. The find show that zakat can reduce the poverty rate and also can improve the level of welfare of a family, both material and spiritual.
Highlights
The category of Indonesia that is still in the stage of developing countries makes Indonesia can not escape from the problem of poverty
Presented the results of research to the productive zakat alms BAZNAS Semarang city based on the calculation of general poverty index, can be seen in the following table: Poverty
Distribution of productive zakat can reduce the number of poor people in Semarang City, when viewed from the indicator of general poverty
Summary
The category of Indonesia that is still in the stage of developing countries makes Indonesia can not escape from the problem of poverty. Financial institutions as intermediary institutions that channel funds from people with a surplus of funds to people with a deficit of funds do not function well, this is evident from the many societies that are unbankable, because they do not have assets for collateral as the basis of credit loans, and the lack of entrepreneurial skills caused the poor to get out of poverty. Zakat has many important roles as well as acceptable benefits, whether for muzakki (giver of zakat) or for mustahik (recipient of zakat). In this case, zakat is expected to make income evenly distributed between the surplus with the deficit party, even can make the deficit party becomes surplus party (Huda, Idris, Nasution, Wiliasih, 2009). The Government of Indonesia has authorized the establishment of zakat amil institutions charged with accepting zakat that must be paid by Muslims who have more wealth or wealth, one of the institutions collecting zakat under the auspices of the government is BAZNAS
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