By exploring Islamic charitable clinics in Indonesia, this paper shows how community-based initiatives and zakat [Islamic charitable obligation] agencies have provided wider access to viable health services for destitute families in poor urban and rural areas. Zakat agencies, with their charitable clinics, have recently gained strong support from both society and the government. They have, for example, tried to bring a community response to the current social economic challenges through the revitalization of the zakat and Islamic charity practice. Low-priced, accessible and free medical assistance for poorer families and small economic enterprises provided by the zakat agencies reflect the endeavours of middle class Indonesian Muslims to translate Islamic discourse on social welfare in a more concrete way. The rise of Islamic charitable clinics, whose origins and motives can partly be linked to the Islamic discourse of the welfare of the ummah [the Islamic community], is without doubt a consequence of emerging interpretations of the meaning and function of Islamic aid in contemporary Indonesian Islam.
This paper investigates the growing initiatives within the private sector to organize social welfare activities, and analyzes the way in which zakat (alms) is practiced among Muslim businessmen. The establishment of zakat agencies within private companies has marked the latest trend of the practice of philanthropy in Indonesia. Corporation-based zakat collectors have become new players in the rapid growth of the Indonesia's zakat sector in the past two decades. This paper examines the following issues: what are the main forces stimulating corporations to set up zakat collectors; what kinds of religious ideas are applied to mobilize charities from Muslim workers, and how these concepts are interpreted and practiced within private companies? This paper argues that the inception of a new concept in zakat practice, such as zakat on corporate wealth, has indicated the dynamics process of Islamization of the private sector in Indonesia.Tulisan ini meneliti inisiatif yang tumbuh dalam sektor swasta untuk mengatur kegiatan kesejahteraan sosial, dan menganalisa cara di mana zakat (sedekah) dipraktekkan di kalangan pengusaha Muslim. Pembentukan lembaga-lembaga zakat dalam perusahaan swasta telah menandai tren terbaru dari praktek filantropi di Indonesia. Perusahaan berbasis kolektor zakat telah menjadi pemain baru dalam pertumbuhan yang cepat dari sektor zakat Indonesia dalam dua dekade terakhir. Makalah ini membahas isu-isu berikut: apa kekuatan utama merangsang IJIMS, Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies, Volume 3, Number 2, December 2013: 175-201 176 perusahaan untuk mendirikan kolektor zakat, apa jenis ide-ide keagamaan yang diterapkan untuk memobilisasi amal dari para pekerja Muslim, dan bagaimana konsep-konsep ini ditafsirkan dan dipraktekkan dalam perusahaan swasta? Makalah ini berpendapat bahwa lahirnya konsep baru dalam praktek zakat, seperti zakat pada kekayaan perusahaan, telah menunjukkan proses dinamika Islamisasi sektor swasta di Indonesia.
This article examines the engagement of Indonesian Islamic civil society organisations in the international arena by paying particular attention to the role of the Islamic modernist movement, Muhammadiyah. Beyond its vibrant religious and social activism in the domestic context of Indonesia, Muhammadiyah has, in the past thirty years, engaged in various international affairs such as peacekeeping operations, humanitarian activities, and politics. This engagement indicates that Muhammadiyah has attempted to strengthen its international exposure and contribute to the global community. By examining Muhammadiyah’s vision and activism, both discursively and practically, this article seeks to know why it is so essential for Indonesian Islamic civil society organisations, such as Muhammadiyah, to be involved in the international arena, and what Muhammadiyah engagement means for the global picture of Islam in the Muslim world.
Learning is an activity that can result in changes in a person, both actual and potential. Learning will be more meaningful if the child has learned what not to know. One of the methods that position the active role of students in this study is a method of contextual learning. Issues raised in this study is whether there are differences in initial test scores and final scores as well as differences in learning outcomes in the experimental class using contextual learning and classroom control using conventional methods. The design used in this study is a quasi experimental, Nonequivalent (Pretest and posttest) Control-Group Design on class VII SMP 4 Padalarang. The independent variables are contextual learning. The dependent variable is the student learning outcomes. Testing the difference of the average pretest and posttest score results using the t test at significance level α = 0.05, with a basis for decision making Ho is accepted if t t table. The result of the calculation is the average difference using t-test at α = 0.05, df 39 is obtained t = 6.773, whereas the t table = 11.099. Because it uses a two-sided test, the acceptance region is a tablet ≤ t ≤ t table. Meanwhile t (6.773)
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