JAKARTA — A total of 22 Dompet Dhuafa branch leaders at home and abroad gathered in a meeting with the Initiator, Founder, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Dompet Dhuafa, Parni Hadi, at the Sasana Budaya Rumah Kita Hall, South Jakarta, on Thursday (19/12/2024). In a warm atmosphere, Parni Hadi provided fresh direction and motivation based on his decades of experience in philanthropy.
This meeting was part of the 2024 National Working Meeting (Rakernas) themed “Leader Summit: Building a Common Vision, Collaboration, and Superior Performance”. The Rakernas was previously opened on Monday (16/12/2024) at Zona Madina, Bogor, and will end with a Disaster Response Training at Gunung Bunder, Bogor.
Rakernas 2024 is a place for branch leaders to share experiences, discuss, and design innovations to strengthen the philanthropic mission in 2025. In his speech, Parni Hadi encouraged Dompet Dhuafa branch leaders across Indonesia to continue to innovate and create in order to make Dompet Dhuafa a superior philanthropic organization. As the tagline of Rakernas 2024, namely “Building a Common Vision, Collaboration and Superior Performance”.
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Dompet Dhuafa’s Board of Trustees and Executive Board are not even reluctant to give appreciation to Dompet Dhuafa branches. This appreciation will be given to branches that have high creativity, be it in terms of collection, distribution, governance, to improving human resources (HR).
Parni also advised not to stop learning and continue to grow with a cultured spirit. She hopes that the cultural movement in each neighborhood can be enhanced with creativity, communication, and synergy. Most importantly, all components carried out by Dompet Dhuafa must have three characteristics: halal, legal, and reasonable.
“I hope you all have high aspects of creativity, communication, and synergy. I want us to learn and grow together. Not just learning by doing but learning by growing,” he said.
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Accompanying Parni Hadi was Ahmad Juwaini, Chairman of the Board of Dompet Dhuafa Republika, and Ismail Ahmad Said, Chairman of Dompet Dhuafa’s Program Management Partner (MPP) for Health. They also expressed the ideas that Dompet Dhuafa will do in 2025. Including the existence of MPP in each pillar of the Dompet Dhuafa program, it will be very possible for each branch to carry out activities effectively and on target.
“Strategic cooperation between MPP and branches aims to increase the effectiveness and wider impact of the program,” Ismail said.
In the discussion session, branch leaders shared inspiring and innovative stories that they have run. Mokhlas Pidono is an example. The Dompet Dhuafa Banten Branch Manager revealed many improvements and achievements throughout 2024. In the economic empowerment program, for example. Dompet Dhuafa Banten is preparing an agro-tourism area of 1,500 square meters. In addition, the Banten Rent-Free Program, which was just initiated in 2024, continues to run. Not only that, the Aku Temanmu Counseling Program, which plans to become a national scale program, is growing every year.
In the next session, Nandrianto, Branch Manager of Dompet Dhuafa Lampung, explained the increase in fundraising by 6.6 percent in his area. While the programs that have been implemented are in the fields of education, social, da’wah, economy, health, humanity, Tebar Hewan Kurban with a total of 39,881 beneficiaries. Interestingly enough, in the Container Canteen Program, the beneficiaries who are poor students get revenue of up to IDR 2 million per person every month.
This meeting brought a new spirit to all participants. The branch leaders agreed that communication, collaboration, and innovation are the keys to success in carrying out humanitarian missions. With burning optimism, Dompet Dhuafa is ready to face the challenges of 2025, continuing the struggle to defend and serve people in need. (Dompet Dhuafa)
Text and photo: Riza Muthohar
Editor: Dedi Fadlil