The Islamic financing savings and loan cooperative Baitul Maal Wat Tamwil Nurul Ummah Ngasem, or KSPPS BMT-NU Ngasem, isan important part of the social welfare dynamics of the Ngasem subdistrict community. The majority of the community works as farmers, making it difficult to access conventional bank capital, and the limitedcash funds from the Nahdlatul Ulama organization in Ngasem also contributed to the establishment of a cooperative by the NU organization administrators of Ngasem sub-district, or MWCNU Ngasem, called KSPPS BMT-NU Ngasem in 2012. The research problem that will form the basis of this study, based on the background explained above, is 1.Why was KSPPS BMT-NU Ngasem Bojonegoro established in 2012? 2.What efforts has KSPPS BMT NU Ngasem Bojonegoro made to improvethe welfare of the community in Ngasem Sub-district, Bojonegoro Regency, from 2012 to 2019? This research aims to analyze the efforts of KSPPS BMT-NU Ngasem in improving the social welfare of the community, its development, as well as the efforts of KSPPS BMT-NU Ngasem in enhancing social welfare in the Ngasem sub-district, focusing on the years2012-2019. This research uses a historical research method with several stages including the heuristic stage (source collection), source criticism (verification), interpretation (analysis of various historical sources to produce historical facts), and historiography (historical writing). Data was obtained through archives and official institutional documents, interviews with historical actors, and literature review.
Research results show that KSPPS BMT-NU Ngasem was established by MWC NU Ngasem in 2012, taking into account the conditions of the community and the internal organization. KSPPSBMT-NU Ngasem implements a cooperative operational system based on Sharia principles professionally in accordance with Islamic law. In its development, KSPPS BMT-NU Ngasem completed legal documents,established branch offices, and opened a supermarket that can be used by the community. KSPPS BMT-NU Ngasem received an award as anationally outstanding cooperative in 2019. KSPPS BMT-NU Ngasem runs savings programs. The savings products of KSPPS BMT-NU Ngasem include SI NASRI savings, SI HANUM Hajj and Umrah savings, SI HARFI Eid al-Fitr savings, SI WALI walimah savings, and SIMJAKASYA Sharia term savings as an effort to improve the social welfare of the community.Other efforts include Financing Programs covering contracts(murabahah), contracts (mudharabah), contracts (ijarah), contracts(musyarakah), contracts (kafalah), as well as contracts (rahn). KSPPSBMT-NU Ngasem implements social assistance programs for thecommunity, including orphan assistance programs, aid programs for the under privileged, debtor assistance programs in 2016, and gift programsfor converts, as well as Community Empowerment Programs including revolving goat programs, 24-hour free ambulance programs, and memberincubation programs. KSPPS BMT-NU Ngasem serves as an institutionfor gathering and distributing worship funds such as zakat, waqf, infaq,and charity from the community to those eligible. KSPPS BMT-NUNgasem contributes with an annual profit of 20% to MWC NU Ngasem.These programs are efforts to improve social welfare that can be accessed and utilized by all community members in the Ngasem district.
Keywords: Cooperative, BMT-NU Ngasem, Social Welfare