The level of awareness among Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) students towards waqf institution / Nor Fasha Syahida Nor Wahdi

When talking about country’s economy development, one must think about business or trading and else. But there are other instruments that can help boost our economic growth which is waqf. Waqf instrument can only be gain the benefit in Islamic country like Malaysia itself different from other west country that do not have other instruments other than business, trade, and interest rate in bank. The importance of waqf come to surface in the hard time like what we are facing right now which is pandemic Covid-19. In Malaysia, waqf properties are handled by MAIN which is State Islamic Religious Council and helped by other organisations. But a few issues or challenges arises make it hard to utilize the benefits of development from the waqf properties. For example, not enough fund and else. Other than that, the community also seem to not aware that those who can enjoyed the benefits are Muslims and Non-Muslims. So, this study was conducted to find out the awareness of students in educational institutions on waqf instruments whose implimentation is highly encuraged in Islam. There are two objectives in this study. First, identify the level of awareness of UKM Muslim students about waqf system in Malaysia. Secondly is to analyze awareness of UKM Muslim students about waqf institution di Malaysia. The method that have been applied in this study is quantitative method where questionnaires have been spread to 119 Muslim students in UKM. The results have been analysed using the descriptive statistics to know the value of frequency, mean, standard deviation and percentage. The result from this analysis also used the Microsoft Excel program. The finding in this study show that, UKM Muslim students have good knowledge about waqf which is mean score for the majority items show the highest mean score. The implication of the study is to see the level of awareness of university students about waqf itself and the institutions. From this study, I hope can help the growth of the waqf institutions in future