JAKARTA — In an effort to report on its activities and achievements, Dompet Dhuafa organized Public Expose 2023 as part of the annual Indonesia Humanity Summit (I-HitS) series, initiated by Dompet Dhuafa on Thursday (21/12/2023), at Ciputra Artpreneur, Jakarta.
This event offered Dompet Dhuafa an opportunity to dissect the programs and best practices implemented by this Islamic philanthropic institution. I-HitS 2023 also invited various sectors to engage in collaboration to address issues of poverty. Beyond regular reporting, Public Expose 2023 further solidified Dompet Dhuafa’s position within the ecosystem of poverty alleviation and national development.
The session featured Bambang Suherman, Director of Programs at Dompet Dhuafa; Haryo Mojopahit, General Manager of Communication and Strategic Alliances at Dompet Dhuafa; media represented by Wahyudi Askar; and Nelwan Harahap, Assistant Deputy at the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture.
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Bambang Suherman reported that Dompet Dhuafa’s fund disbursement absorption rate for 2023 was 99.58%. According to the Allocation to Collection Ratio and Zakat Core Principle, Dompet Dhuafa’s disbursement performance was highly effective.
“Dompet Dhuafa collected community funds totaling 363.31 billion rupiah and has disbursed 361.78 billion rupiah,” Bambang stated.
Dompet Dhuafa strives to design and reconstruct ideas to enable Dompet Dhuafa to generate solutions for eradicating poverty. This is achieved by expanding various empowerment programs for the community to become self-sufficient.
“This has become a challenge at Dompet Dhuafa, to realize a mechanism that can enhance the skills of our community members in the field and truly have a significant impact on the community,” said Bambang.
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The Empowered Independent Area (MADAYA) focuses on village territories, with interventions based on key commodities developed as multi-thematic programs covering five pillars: economy, education, health, social, culture, and da’wah.
Dompet Dhuafa’s Madaya Area employs an intensive approach to community empowerment programs within a defined geographic or administrative perimeter. To achieve a significant impact on poverty alleviation over the long term, two key aspects are emphasized.
“Financial management assistance and the formation of local economic institutions, so that interventions to develop their economic abilities are based on professional institutional decisions, we call it partnership. Dompet Dhuafa acts as a partner,” Bambang added.
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The Madaya Area program’s implementation utilizes the Filantropreneur approach, a program with three stages. The Area Program encourages benefit recipients to become donors with good social business management skills. This social business will also serve as capital for productive endowment development.
“The implementation involves three stages: beneficiary assistance, institutional partnership strengthening, and national social enterprise alliance,” Bambang elaborated.
With Dompet Dhuafa’s five pillars, the Education pillar benefited 67,459 individuals, the Economy pillar helped 10,347 individuals, the Health pillar aided 139,881 individuals, and the Social Humanity pillar reached 2,302,124 individuals. The Da’wah and Culture pillar impacted 105,512 individuals.
One implementation of the Madaya Area is the Solok Sirukam Coffee Village. Initiated by Dompet Dhuafa Singgalang in 2019, its main product is “Greenbeans” with the trademark “Kopi Solok Sirukam”. Interventions include capital assistance for fertilizer, coffee plant cultivation guidance, market & product development, and the establishment of local institutions.
The Madaya Area’s impact in Solok Sirukam Coffee Village includes the formation of the “Solok Sirukam Sepakat” Cooperative and the “Cirubuih Indah Non Jaya” coffee farmer group, an increase in income from selling Red Cherry from Rp4,500/kg to Rp8,500-Rp13,000/kg, and becoming a learning showcase for coffee cultivation from upstream to downstream.
In the same discussion, Haryo Mojopahit, General Manager of Communication and Strategic Alliances at Dompet Dhuafa, expressed that Public Expose 2023 is expected to develop a joint strategy to be implemented in 2024, to evaluate Dompet Dhuafa’s efforts.
“Here, we align with the Preamble to the Constitution and Pancasila, aiming to foster a just and prosperous society. At Dompet Dhuafa, our mission is to empower the underprivileged to escape the bonds of poverty. We advocate and serve to promote community change based on justice, ensuring everyone has equal access to their efforts,” Haryo shared.
Nelwan Harahap, one of the panelists, noted that Dompet Dhuafa holds a strategic position where it can connect problems with solutions through collaboration.
“I agree about the current poverty situation in Indonesia, but it requires significant effort. Our collaboration with all stakeholders needs to be cohesive, including informing the government and business institutions about the humanitarian movements and networks built by Dompet Dhuafa. Such events facilitate other humanitarian actors to become interested and support the programs offered by Dompet Dhuafa to strategic and benevolent partners in the future,” Nelwan remarked. (Dompet Dhuafa/Anndini/Muthohar)