| One of the most important funding mechanisms for public services was a private one, the waqf. |
| This fostered serious debates over cash, the line sometimes being drawn between cash being expended and cash being invested, the latter permitted as waqf property. |
| Once a building or land is declared a masjid, it falls under the category of waqf and may not be moved, sold or treated otherwise. |
| It is under Megawati's regime, however, that an attempt to regulate waqf finds its momentous time. |
| In Arabic, a waqf implies a religious endowment fund, which renders a property unalienable, incapable of being surrendered or transferred. |
| The demolished houses were occupied by those who were regular tenants of waqf and had paid rent of June and July too. |
