Jakarta, June 14 -- The Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Indonesian Waqf Board (BWI) are preparing a national regulatory framework to strengthen waqf (Islamic endowment) management, making it more adaptive and responsive to local needs.

Dendy Zuhairil Finsa, Head of BWI's Legal and Asset Handling Division, stressed the need for a unified regulation to provide a consistent legal foundation for waqf land certification and management.

"We need a national regulatory framework that bridges and aligns regulations at both central and regional levels," he said in a statement issued on Saturday.

According to Finsa, differing interpretations of regulations among agencies have hindered the certification process-complicating matters for commu...