JAKARTA - The Center for Strategic Studies (Puskas) Baznas RI provides a research-based assessment to Baznas Depok City, West Java (West Java) with an A.
This is for the category of sharia compliance which is higher than the average value of City / Regency Baznas throughout Indonesia.
"Baznas Depok City has achieved an increase in performance since it was first inaugurated for the 2016-2021 period," said KH Encep, Head of Baznas Depok City, quoted by Antara, Jakarta, Sunday, January 31.
For other categories such as transparency, Baznas Depok City also achieved a good predicate because it touched a score of 0.80 from the highest score of 1.00. Furthermore, the relationship with the City Government, Baznas Depok City reached the harmonious category.
"With one indicator of operational cost support from the APBD amounting to 73 percent of the total operational costs," he explained.
Depok City Baznas also organizes zakat management with quality management standards and has achieved ISO 9001: 2015 certification by the World WQA Agency in 2019 and has received another surveillance audit in 2020.
For the opinion of the financial statements by the Public Accountant Firm, it was declared Fair without Exclusion (WTP) for three consecutive years, namely 2017, 2018 and 2019. The award for the best institutional operational category in West Java was won by Baznas Depok City in 2019.
Furthermore, Encep said that the collection of funds in 2020 reached IDR 4,847,000,306 directly through the Depok City Baznas account of 2,423 muzaki.
Meanwhile, the achievement of the collection through the Zakat Collection Unit (UPZ) in the form of zakat fitrah is Rp. 18,856,776,662.
As for the distribution, it has been allocated from the results of direct collection through the Baznas Depok City account amounting to IDR 3,834,274,531. Meanwhile, direct distribution from UPZ reached IDR 17,838,355,971.
"The number of beneficiaries of zakat utilization is 452 and the distribution mustahik is 15,666 people," he explained.
Optimization of zakat collection in Depok City can be improved through regulatory support in the form of the Zakat Perda. One important step can be taken by catalyzing the mechanisms for the passing of the Zakat Perda.
The Baznas expert council can propose or provide recommendations as reinforcement.
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