Pembaruan Hukum Perwakafan di Indonesia

Abstract

This article concentrates on Islamic law product relating to charitable religious endowment (waqf) in Indonesia. Based on the traditional perspective of fiqh originated from the earlier Islamic jurists of orthodox view and in turn it had long been legislised as part of Indonesia positive law system, the law of waqf had regulated that the wealth to be waqf shall be limited to only unmoving properties. This regulation had led the management of waqf to be unproductive to raise the social welfare. By the virtue of the relatively wider viwpoint of the contemporary Islamic law thinkers, the Islamic law reform takes place in Indonesia particularly at the level of postive law, namely Law Number 41/ 2004 Relating to Waqf. This law stipulates the thing to be waqf could be either unmoving or moving properties, like cash, gold, certificate of obligation, inteletual wealth, and so forth. This law also lays down the regulation relating to the penalty against those who deviate in managing a waqf. However, as a critque and recommendation the writer propose that the society could be involved in preserving the purpose of a waqf which is the right of Allah. And it could be conducted by stipulating the class action as a way of the settlements of dispute occuring to a waqf property. Tulisan ini berbicara tentang produk hukum Islam mengenai perwakafan di Indonesia.Tidak terlepas dari pemahaman fikih yang diwarisi selama berabad-abad dari para ulama yang berpandangan tradisional dalam masalah harta wakaf, demikian juga instrumen hukum perwakafan yang telah masuk dalam sistem hukum Indonesia mengatur harta wakaf terbatas pada benda-benda yang tidak bergerak. Hal ini berakibat pada pengelolaan wakaf tidak mampu membuahkan manfaat yang dapat memobilisasi wakaf itu sendiri untuk berfungsi sebagai lembaga keagamaan dan kemasyarakan yang meningkatkan kesejahteraan umat.