INDONESIA - ZAKAH - Zakah funds to reach IDR 1.8 trillion

Jakarta (4/8) based on the public awareness to contribute zakah/alms and a better management of zakah funds it is expected that the zakah funds rising will be increased every year. The chairman of  Forum Organisasi Zakat (FOZ), Ahmad Juweni has predicted that in 2011 zakah funds rising will reach the amount of IDR 1.8 trillion, from the previous year, IDR 1.5 trillion. (source)

CALL FOR PAPERS - International Zakat Conference “Sustainable Zakat Development in the Poverty Alleviation and Improvement of Welfare of the Ummah” Bogor, July 19-21, 2011 (deadline abstract March 29, 2011)

International Zakat Conference
“Sustainable Zakat Development in the Poverty Alleviation and
Improvement of Welfare of the Ummah”
Bogor, July 19-21, 2011
Organized by:
WORLD ZAKAT FORUM

CALL FOR PAPERS (detail hereunder)

CALL FOR PAPERS - International Zakat Conference - “Sustainable Zakat Development in the Poverty Alleviation and Improvement of Welfare of the Ummah” (Submission abstract May 30, 2011)

“Sustainable Zakat Development in the Poverty Alleviation and Improvement of Welfare of the Ummah”

Bogor-Indonesia, July 19-21, 2011(full story)

ZAKAT - World Zakat Forum in Yogyakarta

TEMPO Interactive, YogyakartaThe Zakat (Alms) Management Organization Association and the Yogyakarta Regional Zakat Forum will hold the World Zakat Forum in Yogyakarta from September 28 to October 2. 

The forum will be attended by representatives from international alms institutions from countries like Malaysia, Qatar, Kuwait, Turkey, England, Bahrain, Jordan, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia.

"The forum will be officially opened by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono," said April Purwanto, the World Zakat Forum executive, yesterday. 

The event, in which 200 people will participate, is to take place at Inna Garuda Hotel on Malioboro Street, Yogyakarta.

ZAKAT - First World Zakat Forum Hosted by Indonesia

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - In a meeting of the World Zakat Forum (WZF) in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, in 2007, Indonesia was appointed to host the first WZF conference. This was revealed by WZF committee chairman Mohammad Arifin Purwakananta to the meeting with press held by the National Zakat Agency (BAZNAS) in Cikini, Jakarta, on Thursday.