PENGARUH PEMBERDAYAAN ZAKAT TERHADAP TINGKAT RELIGIUSITAS MASYARAKAT DI ERA PANDEMI COVID-19 (Studi Kasus Pemberdayaan Zakat Pada Program Kampung Taqwa Mrican Binaan BAZNAS Kota Yogyakarta)

COVID-19 Pandemic has impacted the religious field. BAZNAS Yogyakarta City through empowerment zakat in the Taqwa Mrican Village program have run for two years and due to the pandemic, activities stopped. This condition has effecting the religiousity of community. Research aims at knows (1) benefit of the Taqwa Village program (2) the religiosity of the community after receiving the Taqwa Village program (3) effect of the Taqwa Village program (4) differences in community religiosity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research used quantitative descriptive and comparative with simple linear regression analysis technique and t-test sample techniques. From the results of the study it is known (1) the community feels the benefits of the Taqwa Village program in the high category of 88.9% and in the moderate category of 11.11%, (2) community religiosity shows a high gain of 93.1% and 6.9% is in the medium category, (3) The Taqwa Village program affects the level of religiosity of the community receiving the program by 25.5%, (4) there is a difference in the religiosity of the community who receive the aid of the program before and during the pandemic that indicates the significance value (2-tailed) 0.000 <0.05 with the results of the descriptive calculation of the difference in religiosity which decreases by 7%