Arskal Salim
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824832377
- eISBN:
- 9780824868963
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824832377.003.0016
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter presents some issues of legislating zakat that have emerged in the aftermath of the Soeharto government in 1998. The enactment of Zakat Administration Law 38/1999 was as a result of ...
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This chapter presents some issues of legislating zakat that have emerged in the aftermath of the Soeharto government in 1998. The enactment of Zakat Administration Law 38/1999 was as a result of contributions from both the MORA and the Forum Zakat (FOZ), although the former actually sought to dominate the enactment process. The promulgation of Law 38/1999 on the Management of Zakat was clear evidence that the institutionalization of zakat had reached the point where the permeation of Islamic doctrines in the structure of the secular state had begun to deepen considerably and perhaps even irreversibly. Yet the process of drafting that law, as this chapter shows, was not easy.Less
This chapter presents some issues of legislating zakat that have emerged in the aftermath of the Soeharto government in 1998. The enactment of Zakat Administration Law 38/1999 was as a result of contributions from both the MORA and the Forum Zakat (FOZ), although the former actually sought to dominate the enactment process. The promulgation of Law 38/1999 on the Management of Zakat was clear evidence that the institutionalization of zakat had reached the point where the permeation of Islamic doctrines in the structure of the secular state had begun to deepen considerably and perhaps even irreversibly. Yet the process of drafting that law, as this chapter shows, was not easy.
Arskal Salim
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824832377
- eISBN:
- 9780824868963
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824832377.003.0015
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter briefly traces the historical background of the practice of zakat in Indonesia before independence. The nature of zakat practices in the early centuries after the coming of Islam to ...
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This chapter briefly traces the historical background of the practice of zakat in Indonesia before independence. The nature of zakat practices in the early centuries after the coming of Islam to Indonesia remains largely unknown. There is no evidence that zakat had been formally transformed into an official tax regularly collected by Muslim kingdoms. Instead, zakat was voluntarily practiced and no Muslim was compelled to pay it. The chapter posits some reasons for this, such as the relative lack of colonial intervention in zakat practice, before turning to a discussion on zakat administration under the New Order regime. In both periods, the chapter examines the finer details of managing the collection of zakat under different administrations.Less
This chapter briefly traces the historical background of the practice of zakat in Indonesia before independence. The nature of zakat practices in the early centuries after the coming of Islam to Indonesia remains largely unknown. There is no evidence that zakat had been formally transformed into an official tax regularly collected by Muslim kingdoms. Instead, zakat was voluntarily practiced and no Muslim was compelled to pay it. The chapter posits some reasons for this, such as the relative lack of colonial intervention in zakat practice, before turning to a discussion on zakat administration under the New Order regime. In both periods, the chapter examines the finer details of managing the collection of zakat under different administrations.
