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International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences

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ISSN: 2222-6990

Development of Management Index for Pondok Institutions in Kedah: New Horizons in Assessing Value Towards Pondok Sustainability and Survivability

Rahayati Ahmad, Syahiza Arsad, Nur Arifah Arifin

http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v7-i12/3597

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The Pondok Education were getting popular and the number of pondok Institution in Kedah keep increasing year by year. Yayasan Pembangunan Pondok Malaysia (YPPM) clarified that, there were 242 pondok institutions in Malaysia and 61 of them were from Kedah. The existent pondok Institution in Kedah were influenced by the consistency of fund provided by faithful, s inc ere and generous individual and charity agents in Kedah such NGO, Majlis Agama (Local Government), Private and Public Companies. The drastic development of pondok Institution in Kedah required the government to seriously monitor the progress level of each pondok institution consistently using a standard index measuring the survivability of undeveloped pondok and the sustainability of the well- developed pondok institution in Kedah. The developed and underdeveloped pondok were not only relied on the number of fund received (financial sources capability) only but also from other aspect such infrastructure and facilities provided, quality of human capital development and effectiveness of pondok governance system. Therefore this study will combine the 4 important elements; Financial Management Matters, Governance Matters, Facilities Matters and Human Capital Matters into an Sustainability and Survivability Index of pondok institution in Kedah by using dichotomous score to randomly selected 25 pondok institution in north and 25 pondok institution in the south of Kedah from the year 2012 until 2016. This study will provide useful information to the public , government agency including NGO and the index developed in this study will be the measuring tool to evaluate the strength and improved the weaknesses of the pondok institution in Kedah so that this pondok institution will continuously produce a high quality Islamic education for the benefit of the Ummah.

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