List of Abbreviations

List of Abbreviations
BAZ/BAZIS
BAZNAS
BMT
BRR
BUMN
BSMI
CCU or CU
DD
DDII
DPR
FOSDAN
FPI
Hamas
HFI
IAIN
ICMI
GAZA
KISDI
KISA
KISPA
KKPA
KOMPAK
KOTKIHO
KNRP
KSI
KSRIA
LAZIS
LIMI
LP3ES
Golkar
GOZIS
HMI
ICRS
IFRC
MER-C
M.I.A.I
MIS
MMI
MUI
Badan Amil Zakat (government-sponsored zakat bodies)
Badan Amil Zakat Nasional (National Zakat Body)
Baitul Mal Wa Tamwil (Islamic savings and loan cooperatives)
Badan Rekonstruksi & Rehabilitasi (Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Body)
Badan Usaha Milik Negara (government-owned corporations)
Bulan Sabit Merah Indonesia (Indonesian Red Crescent Societies)
Catholic Credit Union
Dompet Dhuafa (Wallet for the Poor, an Islamic Philanthropic Association)
Dewan Dakwah Islamiyah Indonesia (Indonesian Council for Islamic Predication)
Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (People Representative Council)
Forum Silaturahmi Da’i Nias
Front Pembela Islam (Islamic Defender Front)
Harakat Al-Muqawamat al-Islamiyya (Islamic Resistance Movement)
Humanitarian Forum Indonesia
Institut Agama Islam Negeri (State Institute of Islamic Studies)
Ikatan Cendekiawan Muslim Indonesia (Indonesian Intellectual Muslim Association)
Gerakan Anti Zionis Israel (Anti-Israel Zionist Movement)
Komite Indonesia untuk Dunia Islam (the Indonesian Committee for Solidarity with the
World of Islam)
Komite Indonesia untuk Solidaritas Afghanistan (Indonesian Committee for Afghanistan
Solidarity)
Komite Indonesia untuk Solidaritas Palestina (Indonesian Committee for Palestine
Solidarity)
Komite Keadilan untuk Pembelaan Al-Aqsa (Committee for Justice and the Al-Aqsha
Liberation)
Komite Peanggulangan Krisis (Crisis Rescue Committee)
Koalisi Tenaga Kerja Indonesia di Hong Kong (The Hong Kong Coalition of
Indonesia Migrant Workers Organisation)
Komite Nasional untuk Rakyat Palestina (National Committee for Palestinian People)
Komite Solidaritas Islam (Islamic Solidarity Committee)
Komite Setiakawanan Rakyat Indonesia-Afghanistan (Committee for IndonesianAfghanistan Friendship).
Lembaga Amil Zakat (Community-based zakat agencies)
Liga Pekerja Migrant Indonesia (Indonesian Migrant Workers League)
Lembaga Penelitian, Pendidikan dan Penerangan Ekonomi dan Sosial (the Institute for
Social and Economic Research, Education and Information)
Golongan Karya (A political party founded by the regime of the New Order)
a Zakat Agency that affiliates to Golkar
Himpunan Mahasiswa Islam (Islamic Student Association)
International Committee of Red Cross Societies
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Medical Rescue Committee
the Majelisul Islami Ala Indonesia
Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Swasta (Islamic private primary school)
Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (Indonesia Fighters Council)
Majelis Ulama Indonesia (Indonesian ‘Ulama Council)
NIRK
NKK/BKK
NU
OIC
PAN
PERSIS
PGI
PII
PINBUK
PKS
PKPA
PKPU
PMI
PNI
PPP
P3M
RANTF
RZI
TKW
TPA
UMR
UN
YDSF
YISC
YPI
YPMN
ZISWAF
Nederlands-Indische Rode Kruis
Normalisasi Kehidupan Campur/Badan Koordinasi Kampus (Normalisation of Campus
Life/Committee for Campus Coordination)
Nahdlatul Ulama (Renaissance of Islamic Scholars)
Organisation of the Islamic Conference
Partai Amanat Nasional National Mandate Party)
Persatuan Islam (Islamic Union)
Persekutuan Gereja Indonesia (The Indonesian Churches Associations)
Pelajar Islam Indonesia (Islamic Student Association)
(Pusat Inkubasi Bisnis Usaha Kecil (Centre for Small Enterprises Business Incubation)
Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (Prosperous Justice Party)
Pusat Pengkajian dan Perlindungan Anak (Study Center for Children Protection)
Pos Keadilan Peduli Umat (Centre for Justice and the Care of Society)
Palang Merah Indonesia (Indonesian Red Cross Societies)
Partai Nasionalis Indonesia (Indonesian Nationalist Party)
Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (The Unity and Development Party)
Perhimpunan Pengembangan Pesantren dan Masyarakat (Indonesian Society for
Pesantren and Community Development)
Recovery Aceh-Nias Trust Fund
Rumah Zakat Indonesia (Indonesian Zakat House)
Tenaga Kerja Wanita (Women Migrant Workers)
Taman Pendidikan Al-Qur’an (‘Qur’anic Kindergarten’)
Upah Minimum Regional (Regional Minimum Wage for labourers)
The United Nations
Yayasan Dana Sosial Al-Falah (Al-Falah Foundation)
Youth Islamic Study Club Al-Azhar
Yayasan Pesantren Islam (The Pesantren Foundation
Yayasan Peduli Muslim Nias (Nias Care Muslim Foundation)
Indonesian acronym for zakat, infak, sedekah and wakaf
GLOSSARY
Adat Customary law or unwritten traditional norms ordering the social, cultural, and economic lives of
the commnities
Akhlaq
The practice of good manner according to Islamic teachings
`Aqida
Islamic theology
Da’i
Muslim preachers, which in Indonesia, are also named muballigh, ‘those whol
deliver the messeges of Islam
Dakwah (Ind.), Da’wa (Ar.)
Missioary and social-welfare activities motivated by religious reasons
Dhikr
Commemoration of God by mentioning God’s names
Fatwa (Ar. Fatawa)
Islamic scholars
Religious or Islamic legal opinions issued by individually or collectively by
Fiqh
Islamic legal prescriptions
Fi Sabilillah
“In the way of God”, effort to uphold Islamic teachings in the name of God’
Hadith
contemporary
Sayings and acts of the Prophet Muhammad as recorded and transmitted by his
Halal
Lawful or permissible
Haram
Illicit or forbidden
Ijtihad
teachings
The intellectual ‘effort’ of using scholarly reasoning to interpret Islamic
Jihad
The religious duty of Muslim to fight in the way of God
Jizya
state.
A tax applied by Islamic rulers to non-Muslim citizens who live in the Islamic
Kharaj
Tax on agricultural land applied in the early Islam
Khums
One-fifth (1/5), the amount of money that should be paid by Muslims as a tax
for their earnings. Applied in the Shi’a tradition. For the the Sunni Muslims, one fifth of tax can only be
applied to the ‘spoil of war’
Madrasah
Islamic schools
Majelis Ta’lim
Study groups
Muallaf
New Muslim converts
Mushalla
House of prayer
Muhadara
Conversation and public spkeaing training
Mujahid
Those who perform jihad.
Muslimat
Women Muslim
Mustahik
Legitimate zakat recipients according to Islam
Mustad`afun
The oppressed
Pengajian
Religious study
Perantau
Traveler or those who are travelling to other regions in order to earn money
Pesantren
Traditional Islamic boarding schools
Reformasi
An era
Sedekah
Charitable giving
Shari`a
Islamic law or Islamic moral code
Shari`a by-Laws
level.
Islam-based regulation issued by local governments at provincial or district
Tabligh
The propagation of the messages of Islam
Tarbiyah
Literally means ‘education’. But it is also linked up to the movements inspired
by the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt.
Tawhid (Ar.)
The Ones of God, the very fundamental principle in Islamic theology
Ukhuwwa
Brotherhood
Umma
The Islamic community
Ustadz
Religious/Islamic teacher
Waqf/Wakaf
Pious endowment
Waqf al-Nuqud
Cash endowment
Zakat
Islamic tax, almsgiving