DATA on the zakat obtained from professionals until the last month of 2010 led Abdul Latief Jusuf to be quite concerned. "The amount of professional zakat from civil servants is just the same," said the Director of the Amil Zakat Body (BAZ) for Makassar, interviewed by Tempo in the middle of last August.

The amount of zakat and infaq (alms in Islam) acquired from civil servant salaries working in the Makassar administration in the last month of 2