THE ROLE OF ZAKAT IN NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Islam is a recognized religion by Allah SWT. Islam is a proper religion to follow and implement in any epoch. The greatness of Islam is proven by its thoroughness. Islam is happiness in life and afterlife, Islam is ibadah and muamalahh, aqidah and sharia, civilization and tamaddun. The Islamic sharia was not only founded on aqidah and ibadah, Islamic sharia also put a large emphasis on positive effort in increasing mans’ standard of living through building understanding in economic and social activity. Lately, with the advances in economic around the world, the economic activity is increasing in its complexities. A large portion of today youths are experiencing job and food shortage. The same phenomenon also happens in Indonesia. A lot of people had lost their job, in which more than 86% of Indonesian are Moslems. A lot of economic and social hardship will continue to exist if the economic condition did not recover. As an alternative solution for said problem, zakat is a viable solution to increase standard of living and stimulate spending. As such governmental political will to organize zakat at state level become important to increase awareness about zakat. Governmental role is very important to actualize the essential goal of zakat

The Handling of Juvenile Delinquency Through the Arrangement of Senior Secondary School ( SMA ) Islamic Education Curriculum”, aimed at formulating the Lesson Plan

Problem statement: The research on juvenile delinquency with the theme “The Handling of Juvenile Delinquency Through the Arrangement of Senior Secondary School ( SMA ) Islamic Education Curriculum”, aimed at formulating the Lesson Plan ( Rencana Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran /RPP ) which is one of learning tools of the materials for handling juvenile delinquency in SMA, that is implemented through the integration of 6 subjects ( Civics, Social Science, Indonesian Language, Sports, Health and Arts Education, Sciences Education and Mathematics) in the schools encountered South Jakarta of DKI Jakarta province. The special targets intended to achieve are 1) Identifying the factors supporting the societies’ involvement in actively taking a role in the process of formulating the sets of SMA curriculum development, 2) Improving, empowering, and developing the schools’ attention by involving the societies’ roles in the formulation of sets of curriculum for SMA in handling the juvenile delinquency through the six subjects in the schools. The plan of the research will be directed to the formulating of program, formula, and implementation of curriculum sets in the form of Lesson Plan ( RPP ) for grade I in the first year and grade II, III for the second year through the integration of six subjects with the Islamic education, especially in the schools encountered the province of DKI Jakarta. Approach: The design of this research is descriptive, in which descriptive research is a method that is used to find the knowledge widely as possible from the research object at a particular time. The technique of Data Collection and Analysis is done by using data collection technique in the form of library research and field study Results: The program of handling the juvenile delinquency in SMA, through the integration of 6 subjects, having competence that is by understanding the verses of Al Qur’an, it improves and changes the students’ attitudes, creating the respectful and well mannered as the model and having tight solidarity/brotherhood and tolerant. By understanding the Al Qur’an verses the deviant behaviors will be prevented. Conclusion: The juvenile delinquency will not be worse if there is serious involvement from students families, societies, as well as the closest people in anticipating the worse juvenile delinquency, because the societies’ awareness in developing the young generation is strongly needed, and hopefully there is related and continuing participation in building the adults’/students’ identities to the better future, in order to create the generation for nation continuity who have morality and noble characteristics

INTENSE COMMUNICATION FOR BABY’S GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS ACTIVITY USING WHATSAPP MEDIA FOR CHILD DAY CARE

As a social media, WhatsApp is a messenger application that allows us to send files, messages, pictures, videos and online chatting as if Blackberry Messenger, but WhatsApp is more popular in iPhone users. WhatsApp first release is on iPhone by Apple, and in its development, now it’s available in Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, and also Symbian version. It’s also the most downloaded application in the world these days, especially for smartphone users. To operate WhatsApp, it needs no credit like text messaging, because it only needs internet data ( EDGE/3G ) or wifi. WhatsApp user’s contact can be automatically detected on our smartphone devices, if our phone contacts are also using WhatsApp Messenger. The purpose of this writing paper is to give instant comprehension about using WhatsApp media on baby’s growth and development activities which babysitted on child day care. True, baby is inseparable from how their childhood educational proceed in the family. Every parents are given mandate to take care the birth and first steps of human lives. Through parent’s hand, every helpless little babies are gently loved with warmth, given nutritions, and also breastfeeding, etc. In the other side, for the sake of decent living and survival, young mothers have a limited time so that they need to put their babies in the child day care. Several notable ideas in this writing can be referral to many parties. Especially about the importance of WhatsApp as a media for child day care supervision. WhatsApp is used to create and establish communication between parents and the day care. Parents usually left their babies from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. This day care is truly an answer to parent’s limited time for taking care of their children. In this writing, the writer situated the WhatsApp Messenger as an effective means with hope that it is capable to bridge the communication between day care and parents so that lessons taught to the babies in the day care can be shared to their parents, so children can continue the lessons at home. Also through WhatsApp media, teachers and parents can share plenty information about children, either in education, health, as well in parenting

Ihsana El Khuluqo_The Development of Classroom Climate Study in Indonesia (a Historical Perspective)

Improving the micro-scale education quality through classroom climate improvement can be conducted, either by the teacher or school principal according to the each capacity. These efforts have been widely implemented abroad. Nevertheless, it is still rare in Indonesia because of the lack of adequate insirumenis or measurement tools, or even the lack of teacher capacity and principals in conducting the improvement. In America or Ausiralia, classroom climate improvement has become an integral part of the learning process and the education process in schools. In Indonesia, the improvements need to be pursued in order to become a good habit. The author has started that effort by developing standardized, valid and reliable classroom climate insiruments starting from primary education, secondary and higher education. The instruments have been used for classroom action research in order to improve the classroom climate. These efforts still need to be strengthened and disseminated to education providers, teachers and school principal to stimulate them and other researchers to use the classroom climate insirument in order to improve the learning and education quality in schools

EVALUATION ON EARLY MARRIAGE: A POVERTY DERIVED CULTURE IN INDONESIA

Birth, marriage and death are the standard trio of key events in most people’s lives. But only one – marriage – is a matter of choice. While early marriage takes many different form and has various causes, one issue is paramount. Whether it happens to a girl or a boy, early marriage violates a panoply of interconnected rights. Early marriage causes serious physical and also psychological harms and suffering, which is commonly defined as gender-related violence. The reasons behind child marriage vary from one country to another. More often than not, child marriage takes place due to cultural aspect and poverty. Indonesia as the biggest country in the southeast Asia region and as the fourth biggest population in the world aren’t so different compared to the whole picture of the world. The lack of literature which explain the interconnection among how culture and poverty (or culture of indigence) affect malformed behavior of the society, especially on early marriage issue. Motivated us to use Jurgen Habermas idea to elucidate the process behind the issue; how culture directly stir every action and decision of the society, including the un-consistency by the government, and Family decision to wed their child as the strategy to solve economic proble

Students Intercultural Communication Competence ( Thailand Pattani Students in Indonesian Campus State Islamic University of Sunan Gunung Jati Bandung )

The third wave has put the information technology era. Communication and transportation occupy important role in people migration from one place to another. This occurred to students of Pattani Thailand who migrated to Indonesia to study in UIN SGD in Bandung. They encountered problems to communicate across cultures and adapt to a new environment. This study will focus intercultural communication competence of Pattani students. To deal with the subject, the study used a qualitative approach, data collected through interviews by a non-participant observation and document analysis. The theory used intercultural communication of Gudykuns, data analysis model of Miles and Huberman that relies on data analysis. The study concluded that Pattani students did not have enough culture cognition; see themselves as exclusive group; insufficient interaction with surrounding community; closed attitudes; verbal communication behavior; and less active in interpersonal relationship