Abstract

Islamic social finance, such as the zakat management Institution must guaranteee the accountability of the zakat

management funds received from muzakki. The zakat management institution must understand the concept of

accountability for islamic social finance institutions, in order to carry out the accountability process correctly. To guarantee

the fulfilment of this accountability, The zakat management insitution needs to implement a good governance framework,

zakat core prinsiple. This study aims to discuss the islamic accountability of islamic social finance in Indonesia, wether it

is depend on the zakat core prinsiple or their own concept of accountability. This article is theoritical and conceptuaal

study, with several method of collecting data from journal and direct observation. The result show that islamic social

finance tend to providing financial and non financial information periodically to their stakeholders and public using

Information Technology (IT) including social media (facebook, instans messaging, and the ohers) in a unique and simple

way. They begin to change this fulfilment of accountability from traditionally to modern using the internet. However, there

are still difficulties in implementing some aspect of zakat core principle because of the limited human resource.

Therefore, it still necessary to developed ilsamic social finance system strategy with support and assistance on the

implementation of accountability in islamic social finance in Indonesia.

Keywords: accountability, islamic social finance, zakat core principle