Optimising Fund Management of Mosque Cash for Economic Empowerment of People

摘要

The large Muslim population in Indonesia is directly proportional to the number of mosques that it has. The large population of mosques scattered throughout Indonesia should be able to contribute to the prosperity of society if we return the function of the mosque to as it was in the time of the Prophet. Today, we often see there are still mosques that allocate cash funds only for the construction and physical improvement of the mosque, whereas on the other hand, there are still pilgrims who are at a low economic level. This shows that there is still lack of optimal management of cash in mosques. With the management of the mosque cash funds optimally in relation to social orientation, it will be able to help improve the economic empowerment of the people. For example, the mosques' cash funds are used to provide assistance in the form of free skills training so that it will increase the independence of the people, and providing working capital assistance program to the people who have difficulty in getting funding to open a business. The discussion in this paper is to optimise the use of mosque cash funds through programs or activities in the form of services in areas of worship, education, health, and society. This will be able to restore the function of the mosque as in the time of the Prophet as a centre of community activity and to help the economic empowerment of the people to help overcome the problem of poverty in Indonesia.