ASIATODAY.ID, JAKARTA – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has launched the Al Quran Literacy Endowment Fund (DALA) movement as a step to eradicate Al Quran illiteracy which is still relatively high in Indonesia.
“We have an ideal of how to eradicate Al Quran illiteracy in Indonesia because the level of Al Quran literacy is quite high, reaching 72.25 percent,” said DALA Movement Chair Deva Rachman during the launch at the Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta, Friday, March 14, 2025.
Deva said that the Al Quran Literacy Endowment Fund movement was initiated by the Indonesian Ulema Council’s endowment institution. According to him, DALA is the locomotive of the productive endowment movement.
DALA has a number of interconnected methods in an effort to eradicate Al Quran illiteracy through listening, writing, reading, and memorizing.
DALA Executive Chair Ambar Pramita said that this method has actually been implemented in a number of districts/cities to test the effectiveness of the method.
“Actually, last year’s Ramadhan was already tested. And this year, Alhamdulillah, we have started to enter several regencies/cities in Indonesia,” he said.
He explained that the Al-Quran Literacy Endowment Fund came from the management of MUI from fundraising results and from endowment funds from several ministries/institutions that have collaborated with MUI.
The collected waqf funds will be invested in productive instruments. The results of these managed funds will become the Al-Quran Literacy Endowment Fund.
Ambar emphasized that the 3T (frontier, disadvantaged, and outermost) regions will be the target areas for eradicating Al-Quran illiteracy, considering the limited number of religious leaders.
“This is indeed the target of DALA. We are preparing preachers, because the 3T areas have very few preachers in those areas,” he said.
Meanwhile, MUI Secretary General Amirsyah Tambunan said that the still high rate of Al-Quran illiteracy in Indonesia makes the DALA movement very important.
“Because the endowment fund movement to provide the Al-Quran is a concrete step that we must welcome,” he said.
He hopes that this productive waqf movement can make Indonesia like Egypt, whose development is supported by waqf funds that have been running for a long time.
“Egypt can advance hundreds of years. Although today we launch a waqf in the form of an endowment fund for Quran literacy for the next 10, 20, and 100 years. We hope to grow and develop for the welfare of the people,” he added. (AT Network)
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