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Accountability Mechanisms Source : Ebrahim (2003)
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Tahfiz centers are institutions that are accountable in educating students who can memorize and recite the whole Al-Quran. The number of tahfiz centers in Malaysia has grown from only 58 in 1999 to 278 in 2011 and more than 91% of them are privately owned. However, the extend of privately owned tahfiz centers (POTC) accountability is unexplored whe...
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... There are accountability problems in fundraising and mismanagement of accumulated funds for Pesantren [12]. When there is misconduct in the governance of a pesantren institution, it will weaken the institution itself. ...
... When there is misconduct in the governance of a pesantren institution, it will weaken the institution itself. According to [12] a reporting should be provided by management of non-profit organizations related to fundraising information to ensure governance and accountability for the financial management of a non-profit organization. ...
... Financial reporting of a pesantren is important to show the traceability of the use of funds received to take care of the operations of the pesantren institute. The biggest distribution faced by institutions in reporting are inputs, activities, outputs and results [12]. According to [18] financial information is very important to be presented in the financial reporting of pesantren. ...
... In general, Tahfiz school is define as an institutions that focus on memorization of Al-Quran (Bani, Katan, Noor, & Fatah, 2014). Currently, in Malaysia, there are two major types of the governance structure of Tahfiz institutions namely government and private. ...
... These three studies also do not focus on the performance and efficiency of the institutions. For instance, Bani et al., (2014) developed an accountability indicator for private Tahfiz institutions by using the stakeholder approach. This study has focuses on the Privately owned Tahfiz center (POTC) accountability indicators from the student perspective. ...
Every single institution has its own governance structure. Private Tahfiz schools are no exception. The main objective of the establishment of private Tahfiz is purely to produce a Huffaz. However, there are some differences in the implementation and management of Tahfiz schools in Malaysia especially for the private schools. Hence, it is worthwhile to further examine factors that may contribute to the efficiency of private Tahfiz in Malaysia. Hence, this study aims to examine the governance factor that may influence efficiency of private Tahfiz in Malaysia. Based on the existing literature research, this study has identified eight governance factors that may contribute to the efficiency of private Tahfiz.
... Performance measurement requires resources that are supposed to be allocated to the beneficiaries. Eventually, performance measurement is performed not only for compliance purposes, but more importantly for adaptive learning and continuous improvement for the institution (Bani et al., 2014). School infrastructure is undoubtedly one of the most important elements in evaluating an institution's performance measurement (Cuyvers et al., 2011) because it contributes to the student's wellbeing in the educational system. ...
... The hifz of the Quran module addresses the capability of students in memorising all 114 chapters in the Quran within a stipulated period. The process begins by learning the Quran by heart, followed by memorising efforts and to the extent that they are capable to write the whole Quran without error (Taiwo, 2014 as cited in Bani et al.,2014). The extend on learning and memorising of the Quran is expected to enhance memory function as the activities involve brain exercises such as elaboration, visual imagery of the words, selfreferent encoding of the Quran text and many more as prescribed in Nawaz and Jahangir (2015). ...
The Quran is a source of knowledge for mankind given to Prophet Muhammad as a guidance by Allah the Almighty. Memorising the Quran began by Prophet Muhammad, his companions and continued by scholars who are experts in their field. This is conducted to preserve the accuracy of the contents of the sacred source of Islamic teaching. This study aims to identify the effect of the memorisation of the Quran (hereafter referred as hifz al-Quran) achievement on the academic performance of secondary school students. The sample of the study consist of 83 students of a maahad tahfiz school in Pahang. Their performance in memorising the Quran and academic was recorded and analysed using descriptive statistics, coefficient of variation, correlation, and regression analysis. The finding shows the distribution in academic performance is equally consistent as compared to memorising the Quran based on the result of value coefficient of variation. The results also show that there is a significant positive relationship between students’ hifz performance and academic performance which can be initially presumed that the students who excel in memorising Quran are more likely to excel in their academic field. Analysis of regression indicated that memorising the Quran has significant effect on academic performance where for every one marks of increase in memorising the Quran, the marks for academic performance also increase by 0.58. There are 22% of total variation in academic performance of student influenced by memorising the Quran. Therefore, the study serves a beautiful insight hidden on the effect of the Quran to academic performance. The Quran memorising culture should be therefore instilled for the development of the Muslim identity, values and the development of Islam in general.
... There is a lack of study in other subject areas such as governance, curriculum, management, and the performance of Tahfiz institutions. However, past studies have highlighted that some obstacles and challenges embroiled the private Tahfiz institutions namely unstandardized infrastructures and facilities (Ridza et al., 2017), poor and weaknesses in private Tahfiz institutions governance and management, insufficient financial resources due to lack of funds and donation, and accountability issue in crowd fundraising which against rule of law (Bani et al., 2017;Bani et al., 2014). Therefore, it is suggested to the researchers to continue their studies in the area that only has a few articles published. ...
Tahfiz institutions are an organization that specializes in educating students to memorize and recite the whole Al-Quran. The number of Tahfiz institutions in Malaysia has grown from only 58 in 1999 to 1267 in 2019. The institutions are managed either by the federal government through Islamic Development Department Malaysia (JAKIM), the Ministry of Education, and state governments under SIRC or privately owned. There are more than 91% of Tahfiz institutions in Malaysia are privately owned. The privately-owned Tahfiz institutions may be owned by foundations, non-government organizations (NGO), or individuals. These institutions may register under the Register of Society, state government, and Ministry of Education. Hence, the objective of this article is to analyze the related literature on Tahfiz from 2012 to 2021. Data were obtained from three databases namely Scopus, Web of Science, and online Google Scholar. The articles have gone through several processes by considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria stated. A total of 83 articles were analyzed using Atlas.Ti software version 8.0. This study looked at several variables such as the number of articles published per year, research approach, and subject area covered by the articles. The general finding of this article shows that the method of memorization is among the most discussed subject among scholars. Henceforth, this article provides significant suggestions for the future exploration of Tahfiz.
... The income compensates the operating costs and management of the respective institutions. Financial constraint is a serious issue, specifically for PTIs in Malaysia, which caused public fundraising accountability (Aziz & Ahmad, 2019;Bani et al., 2017;Ismail, 2016;Fatah, 2014). Government assistance, private sector donations, alms, and endowments remain insufficient to cover the entire operating costs of Malaysian PTIs which increases yearly (Yusopa et al., 2020;Kamal & Seman, 2017;Azha et al., 2013). ...
Optimal product marketing strategies are essential to company success. Profit generation is the main goal in covering management costs and increasing competitiveness regularly. The financial constraints of most Private Tahfiz Institutions (PTIs) in Malaysia created opportunities to venture into business and entrepreneurship. The situation generates income for survival instead of completely relying on the government, private sector, charity, and waqf assistance. Hence, the study aims to identify PTI marketing strategies to promote their products. The study performed semi-structured interviews with six chosen PTI founders involved in the marketing of tahfizpreneur products. The interview data were analysed using inductive content analysis. The findings revealed that the PTIs applied four main marketing strategies to promote the respective tahfizpreneur products: (i) direct sales to customers, (ii) printed promotions using brochures and paid newspaper advertisements, (iii) product sales agents, and (iv) electronic digital marketing, such as Facebook Ads, WhatsApp, Blaster, Instagram, YouTube, EQ2U, and Yezza. The various marketing strategies adopted increased consumer access to tahfizpreneur products, which positively impacts the sales of products and services of PTIs in Malaysia.
... The income compensates the operating costs and management of the respective institutions. Financial constraint is a serious issue, specifically for PTIs in Malaysia, which caused public fundraising accountability (Aziz & Ahmad, 2019;Bani et al., 2017;Ismail, 2016;Fatah, 2014). Government assistance, private sector donations, alms, and endowments remain insufficient to cover the entire operating costs of Malaysian PTIs which increases yearly (Yusopa et al., 2020;Kamal & Seman, 2017;Azha et al., 2013). ...
Optimal product marketing strategies are essential to company success. Profit generation is the main goal in covering management costs and increasing competitiveness regularly. The financial constraints of most Private Tahfiz Institutions (PTIs) in Malaysia created opportunities to venture into business and entrepreneurship. The situation generates income for survival instead of completely relying on the government, private sector, charity, and waqf assistance. Hence, the study aims to identify PTI marketing strategies to promote their products. The study performed semi-structured interviews with six chosen PTI founders involved in the marketing of tahfizpreneur products. The interview data were analysed using inductive content analysis. The findings revealed that the PTIs applied four main marketing strategies to promote the respective tahfizpreneur products: (i) direct sales to customers, (ii) printed promotions using brochures and paid newspaper advertisements, (iii) product sales agents, and (iv) electronic digital marketing, such as Facebook Ads, WhatsApp, Blaster, Instagram, YouTube, EQ2U, and Yezza. The various marketing strategies adopted increased consumer access to tahfizpreneur products, which positively impacts the sales of products and services of PTIs in Malaysia.
... Government funds, alms, and endowments channeled directly to PTIs in Malaysian states such as Selangor, Pahang, Melaka, and several others were insufficient (Azha et al., 2013;Kamal & Seman, 2017). This is in addition to PTI accountability issues involving illegal fundraising and misgovernance (Fatah, 2014;Bani et al., 2017). Ismail (2016) strongly supports it, stating that the main problems of PTIs are poor educational management and financial resource constraints which have a direct impact on the production of excellent huffaz. ...
... Next, as noted by Fatah (2014) and Bani et al. (2017), the accountability issues plaguing PTIs in Malaysia have given these institutions a lousy image and tarnished their good name. According to the situation, a few PTIs in Malaysia was manipulating and using their students to raise funds to cover the operating costs of their respective premises by asking for alms at petrol stations, banks, and other places where the local community congregated. ...
PTIs are encouraged to participate in entrepreneurial activities that are appropriate for their area and ability. Thus, this qualitative case study where a semi-structured interview with the selected Malaysian Private Tahfiz Institutions (PTIs) was conducted to identify entrepreneurial activities to pay operational and management costs, to analyze the obstacles, limitations, problems faced and to assess the balance of entrepreneurial activities in educational governance of these religious, educational institutions. The findings demonstrated that involving PTIs in entrepreneurship can cover ranging from 40 to 50 percent of total operating costs. Keywords: Qualitative Assessment; Entrepreneurial Activities; Malaysian Private Tahfiz Institutions (PTIs); Malaysia eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6i18.3056
... Tahfiz institutions are educational institutions dedicated to teaching students to memorize and recite the entire Quran (Bani, Katan, Noor, & Fatah, 2014;Muhamad al-Bakri, 2013). Malaysia now has 1267 Tahfiz institutions, up from 58 in 1999. ...
Every country has a unique educational system to offer its citizens. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Higher Education are responsible for overseeing education in Malaysia. Since Malaysia is an Islamic country, the majority of religious education in the country is centered on Islam. In Malaysia, on the other hand, Tahfiz education is the most widely practiced. In contrast to Thailand, Thai Buddhist temples have surpassed all other institutions of learning as the primary source of religious instruction for the vast majority of the populace. Both religious education in these countries has developed in recent years, becoming more systematic and gaining in popularity. Hence, this article will review the religious education practices in Malaysia as well as Thailand.
... Tahfiz institutions are educational institutions dedicated to teaching students to memorize and recite the entire Quran (Bani, Katan, Noor, & Fatah, 2014;Muhamad al-Bakri, 2013). Malaysia now has 1267 Tahfiz institutions, up from 58 in 1999. ...
Education is one of the important agendas in the development of a country. Every country has a unique educational system to offer its citizens. Mostly there are few types and levels of education offered by the government of a country. In Malaysia, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Higher Education are responsible for overseeing education matters. Besides mainstream education, Malaysia is also popular with religious education. Since Malaysia is an Islamic country, the majority of religious education in the country is centered on Islam, and Tahfiz education is the most widely practiced. Currently, this education has received a huge interest among parents and children itself. In contrast to Thailand, Thai Buddhist temples have surpassed all other learning institutions as the primary source of religious instruction for the vast majority of the populace. The education is focused on monastic, which is divided into four categories. Hence, this article will review the religious education practices in Malaysia as well as Thailand. This study used library research to gather all information of religious education from both countries. It is found that both religious education in these countries has developed in recent years, becoming more systematic and gaining in popularity.
