Shift in Zakat Practice in Indonesia, The: From Piety to an Islamic Socio-Political-Economic System Health Worker and a civil conflict fueled

and a civil conflict fueled by the Cold War

” —ฉัตรทิพย์ นาถสุภา คณะเศรษฐศาสตร์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย

Drawing on current anthropological debates on the state in Southeast Asia and more generally on debates on property theory

this heritage is under threat – from the pace of change

Written from an insider's perspective

Shift in Zakat Practice in Indonesia, The: From Piety to an Islamic Socio-Political-Economic System Health Worker and a civil conflict fueledArskal Salim Zakat, one of Islams Five Pillars, is the practice of giving a fixed proportion of ones financial assets to those in need, thereby purifying both ones soul and ones remaining wealth. In Indonesia, since the coming of Islam, zakat has been a means of worship, and its collection has been voluntary and decentralized. Arskal Salim argues that in the post New Order regime zakat practice changed structurally and institutionally through the