ZAKAT MANAGEMENT FOR AIDING PRODUCTIVE BUSINESS AND 9 YEARS COMPULSORY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

Indonesia is a country with majority citizen choose Islam as their religion. Moslems are oblige to pay zakat, the third pillar of Islam. Zakat is a free gift and will not return because the given zakat is the right of zakat receiver, especially poor family. Mostly of their receiver act passively by awaiting and accepting when someone give zakat to them. Zakat implementation is duty and responsibility of every moslem, especially zakat foundation which functions as connector or mediator between the giver and receiver of zakat. In the social life there is different opinion among moslem about,1.The continous fund aid which tends to be productive from zakat, 2. Zakat revenue to help compulsory educational program. Zakat organizer are expected to have better management with professional human resources. Zakat payment from Koran recital groups and national child care program surely have great urgency. How to manage, who must manage, where the source of fund come, who can accept, how are the requirements to earn and what are the criterias used when giving this aid, also how far the successful of this program in dealing with poverty problems. Positive progress should be accompanied with better distribution to poor families. Regarding this phenomenon, it demands change, better understanding about zakat and its management through decent ethic, well approaching time of its raising, distribution, and management. Result from this research is utilization of zakat for productive programmes and education which proven still not appropriate with sya’ri because in its utilization only focusing on poor families and loose monitoring of its distribution. Keywords : productive zakat, zakat for education, social econom