Strategi Pendayagunaan STRATEGI PENDAYAGUNAAN ZAKAT PRODUKTIF UNTUK PENGENTASAN KEMISKINAN ( Implementasi Indeks Zakat di LAZISMU )

Amil Zakat Infaq Shadaqah Muhammadiyah Institute (LAZISMU) as an official zakat management institution owned by community organizations has a role not only to manage and distribute zakat, but also play a role in empowering productive zakat so as to reduce poverty, by measuring through the zakat index the distribution of zakat funds will right on target.This study aims to determine the role of LAZISMU in the strategy of utilizing productive zakat. This study also aims to analyze the achievements of the zakat index implemented by LAZISMU. This study took a sample in the South East Timor Regency, the application of the LAZISMU zakat index which receives productive zakat. This research is a field research that is research whose data source is obtained directly from the object of research documentation and descriptive analysis methods to find out and analyze the role of LAZISMU. In addition to distributing productive zakat, LAZISMU also conducts supervision and guidance on mustahiq in using the productive zakat funds received. The results of the different test analyzes showed that there were differences in the income of mustahiq before and after receiving productive zakat.