MONEY MANAGEMENT, SOCIALIZATION, AND INTERESTSMONEY WAQF FROM PERSPECTIVE OF PESANTREN CIVITIES
Deddy A. Suhardi
Universitas Terbuka
Abstract
Money Waqf is very important in the Islamic Economy and the development of human welfare. Proper and massive management will become a financial instrument that can be relied upon by business people and social institutions. However, public interest and participation in the implementation of waqf money is still low. Based on a survey of 138 teachers and 228 santri from five pesantren in Jakarta in 2019, there were three important aspects of their interest participation in money waqf, namely: (i) managing waqf money with a more transparent and functional principle in supporting the economy and welfare of the people; (ii) implementing waqf money with a reliable and easy system in terms of technical matters such as location, officers, waqf processes, institutions, and so on; and, (iii) media for the dissemination of money waqf is formal or trustworthy, such as print media, pesantren, religious leaders, and the Indonesian Waqf Board. This result shows that there is still a need for a more trustworthy management system and socialization of money waqf in terms of transparency, functionality and legality, to be able to attract the public, and make it easier in terms of technical facilities to be massively followed by the community.
Keywords: money waqf transparency, money waqf functionality, money waqf participation
Topic: Sharia economics and banking