Zakat's Potential to Increase Intellectual Capacity: Affirmative Actions in Indonesia
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Knowing the potential of zakat, the programs to utilize zakat potential and in increasing literacy in Indonesia is the main objective of this research. Interviewing informants which was purposively determined regarded as the primary data source. The secondary data obtained through analysing annual report documents, official reports, press releases, and the National Amil Zakat Agency (BAZNAS) website. Data analysed through the coding process and classification based on research objectives. The research finding shows the potential of zakat collected at BAZNAS worth Rp. 233, 8 trillion, which sourced from various zakat objects; zakat income of Rp. 139, 07T, zakat of money Rp. 58.76 T, zakat of agriculture Rp.19.79 T, zakat of staple food Rp.13.95T and plantation Rp.5.84 T and Zakat of livestock Rp.9.51T. Zakat has excellent potential in realizing the Syariah maqasid, li hifdz al aql. The utilization of zakat is carried out in a structured way through the BAZNAS Scholarship Institution (LBB) due to the Decree of the Chairperson of BAZNAS No. 12 of 2018. The decree's primary purposes are to ensure the continuity of educational programs for the poor, intergenerational accountability, and prepare the next generation of the nation with a depth of knowledge and nobility. The government has launched various forms of scholarship programs for Bachelor, Magister, and Doctoral level students. Research assistance with specific topics of Zakat; The Thousand Ulama Cadre Scholarship (KSU); and the Post-Disaster Education are program constructed by the zakat managers to realize that: a). Mustahik gets their fundamental rights to decent and quality education; b). Zakat supports the realization of the objectives of sharia and the mandate of the 1945 constitution to prepare a generation of noble, faithful and devoted to God and have life skills; c). increased self-awareness of change and better preparation for the future; d) integrative development of hard and soft skills, mind and heart; e) development of implicit and explicit knowledge through forums for inspiring figures, science assemblies and other intellectual stimulation programs.
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