ESTABLISHING BROTHERHOOD BETWEEN MASJID: AN ISLAMIC APPROACH TOWARDS EMPOWERMENT OF FARMERS IN INDONESIA Meirna Puspita Permatasari, Khairul Mujahidi, Meryana Rizky Ananda
Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Brawijaya Malang, Indonesia
Abstract
Agricultural financing remains a prominent obstacle many farmers in Indonesia are currently struggling with. Financial aid from formal institutions is often inaccessible for small farmers. In addition to this phenomenon, farmers in Indonesia still have to deal with the middlemen, causing farmers to suffer from price injustice upon their harvested commodities. Referring to the era of Prophet Muhammad SAW in which masjid (mosque) served as the center of economic activities, this paper aims to revive the former power of masjid to solve the ongoing agricultural problems and to bring out more prosperity to small farmers as a part of the whole ummah. A case study was conducted in Indonesia by employing literature survey of agricultural financing cases and the role of masjid as an economic entity built upon and underpinned by Islamic law. This research finds that the revival of masjid as the center of economic activities can be carried out by optimizing the funds they receive in the form of infaq and shadaqah. Mainly, the collected funds are allocated for renovation process of the masjid itself. Only a small portion of it goes back to the community. We designed a scheme to turn infaq and shadaqah into something more productive which may empower farmers. Thus, they may have the chance to detach themselves from middlemen and access more funds to finance their farming works. This is called establishing brotherhood between masjid. Inspired by the establishment of brotherhood between Muhajirin and Anshar back then, the brotherhood between masjid sheds a light on how infaq and shadaqah from one masjid can be transferred to another masjid and used as aids for farmers. Such bond of brotherhood may also open a new pipeline to distribution of agricultural products. Regarding to the fact that this research is in conceptual context, a suggestion made for future researchers and practitioners to verify this concept in actual condition.
Keywords: brotherhood between masjid; infaq; shadaqah; agricultural financing; distribution of agricultural products
Topic: International Conference of Islamic Economic and Financial Inclusion
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