Journal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance
Vol 1 No 2 (2016): FEBRUARY

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ZAKAT FUNDING THROUGH DOMPET DHUAFA BEASTUDI ETOS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

Yulya Srinovita (Research and Development at Makmal Pendidikan, Dompet Dhuafa, Indonesia)
Purwa Udiutomo (Beastudi Indonesia, Indonesia)
Pedri Haryadi (Research and Development at Makmal Pendidikan, Dompet Dhuafa, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Feb 2016

Abstract

The Problems of education and poverty are interrelated. The poor people cannot access higher education and they will remain poor with insufficient education. Therefore, the effort to break the cycles of poverty is to provide opportunities for the poor to obtain higher education Dompet Dhuafa through Beastudi Etos empowers education by providing coaching, mentoring and education financing funding. The population of this research is all of the beneficiaries alumni Beastudi Etos scholarship with a total sample of 190 respondents. The result of the research has shown that Beastudi Etos scholarship program is one of the programs that are quite effective in breaking the cycles of poverty through education and economic improvement. The result also indicates that the program is effective in creating excellent and independent generation. It is shown that 81.58% of respondents have successfully completed their studies (Bachelor, Master and Doctoral degrees), the others are in the process of finishing bachelor degree. 88.95% of the respondents have worked and earn income more than 7,000,000 Rupiah/month, 21.5% have dependents from 1 up to 13 persons. In general, the respondents state that coaching and mentoring which has been given is affected on the character (97.4%), skills (94.2%), socials skill (97.9%), and social generosity (97.9%).

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JIMF

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

JIMF is an international peer-reviewed and scientific journal which is published quarterly by Bank Indonesia Institute. JIMF is a type of scientific journal (e-journal) in Islamic economics, monetary, and finance. By involving a large research communiy in an innovative public peer-review process, ...