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Optimalisasi Lembaga Amil Zakat Untuk Penyaluran Zakat Bagi Golongan Gharimin, Annisa Sucita Fitri

Journal of Islamic Law Studies

Gharimin or people who carry debts are one of eight groups who are entitled to receive zakat distribution (asnaf). Gharimin with certain criteria, in principle, will be helped to pay off their obligations through the receipt of zakat. However, there are many gharimin who have to get back into new debt or loans, either conventional or online loans, which threaten them to pay big interest. It was later discovered that zakat receipts by the Amil Zakat Institution (LAZ), especially those that would be distributed to the mustahik of the Gharimin group, were still not maximized, so high-interest loans were still …