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Shift in Zakat Practice in Indonesia, The: From Piety to an Islamic Socio-Political-Economic System Health Worker for most of usArskal Salim Zakat, one of Islams Five Pillars, is the practice of giving a fixed proportion of ones financial assets to those in need, thereby purifying both ones soul and ones remaining wealth. In Indonesia, since the coming of Islam, zakat has been a means of worship, and its collection has been voluntary and decentralized. Arskal Salim argues that in the post New Order regime zakat practice changed structurally and institutionally through the