Getting Rid of Family Poverty in Indonesia by Empowering Women According to Islamic Law

Abstract

The goal of this study is to come up with an Islamic-based plan for giving women from low-income families more social and economic power. Indonesia had a low score on the Gender Inequality Index (GII) compared to other countries, which showed that men and women in Indonesia are not equally empowered. This led to the study. Year after year, more and more women become the heads of poor homes. We are using the Analytical Network Process (ANP) in this qualitative study to look at how governments, Islamic charitable institutions, and Islamic microfinance institutions help low-income families. Up to fifteen of the people who responded to the ANP method were experts on the problems that were being studied. These experts included regulators, practitioners, and professors. The study shows that building partnership networks is the most important thing that needs to be done to empower women. The experts then came to the conclusion that helping women with their businesses and their mental and spiritual growth were the most important things to do to give women more power and reduce family poverty. Giving people access to money is the last thing that needs to be done. One thing this study shows is that the program to give women from low-income families more power needs to be all-encompassing. One way to do this is to create a Group Lending Model (GLM) based on a modified version of the majlis ta'lim, which is an Islamic community talk group.