SIKEPO: SANTRI EMPOWERMENT IN MANAGING  PONDOK PESANTREN FINANCIAL TO MAKE  TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Janah Setiya Nurul Arifa; Lailatul Nurus Shofiyyah; Ahmad Rokhi Regar; Muhammad Shohibur Rida; Ahmad Zuhdi Alwan

doi:10.28918/isjoust.v2i1.11948

Authors

Janah Setiya Nurul Arifa State University of Semarang
Lailatul Nurus Shofiyyah State University of Semarang
Ahmad Rokhi Regar State University of Semarang
Muhammad Shohibur Rida State University of Semarang
Ahmad Zuhdi Alwan State University of Semarang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.28918/isjoust.v2i1.11948

Abstract

Islamic Boarding School or generally called Pondok Pesantren (Ponpes) is a community-based educational
institution of Islamic religious education that organizes an integrated religious education with other types of
education. Ponpes must be able to compete with other general educational institutions by conducting a
management. In 2018, Indonesian government issued the accounting guidelines of Ponpes which mainly
aimed at empowering economic of Ponpes in order to be able to prepare financial statements. The public
volunteers of Economics Faculty of UNNES conducted services at Ponpes Aswaja (Semarang) which had
not yet had good financial management. The recording of financial data such as santri’s tuition fee was still
manual and the payment recapitulation still used folio books untidily. Consequently, it is difficult to find if
the recapitulation is required for accountability. Therefore, it is necessary an integrated financial
management system of Ponpes in order to record the financial data properly. The system can also facilitate
Ponpes to carry out financial transparency and accountability in accordance with financial accounting
standards. The voluntary activities focused on the understanding of Aswaja Ponpes administrators regarding
accounting and financial management based on information technology called Sistem Manajemen Keuangan
Pondok (Sikepo). The activities were implemented by training and mentoring of administrators based on
Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA). Ponpes administrators were enthusiastic about Sikepo training.
Sikepo could improve the understanding of accounting and financial management of Ponpes administrators.
Furthermore, the system was then used to record every financial transaction in Ponpes. The final of financial
statements were the recapitulation of student tuition fee, the use of funds for daily needs, and other activity
reports. This system can also be used in all Ponpes over Indonesia.