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Combining 'waqf', fintech and venture capital

Despite their crucial roles, SMEs are still facing persistent issues. The first issue is that SMEs have limited access to finance.

Fauziah R Yuniarti and Hasan Alatas (The Jakarta Post)
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Tue, September 5, 2017

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Combining 'waqf', fintech and venture capital Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) participate in an expo at the Jakarta Convention Centre in Jakarta. (Kompas/Heru Sri Kumoro)

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ontributing 60 percent to the gross domestic product (GDP) and 97 percent to the national workforce, small-and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the Indonesian economy. Despite their crucial roles, SMEs are still facing persistent issues.

The first issue is that SMEs have limited access to finance. Until 2014, from nearly 60 million SMEs, only 30 percent had access to finance — 23 percent from banks and 7 percent from non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs). Asymmetric information between borrowers and lenders is the major impediment of this terrible condition. 

Having no collateral and financial statements — two common tools to overcome asymmetric information — stifles SMEs’ access to finance.

To surpass this issue, Islam offers an abundance of potential social funds calledwaqf (Islamic endowment). Unlike zakat, waqf is voluntary and has looser regulations. This flexible nature of waqf hence makes it the best resource to help the economy.

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