Islamic financial outlook and the influence of religion on the law

This presentation was given as part of the Islamic Law and International Law Conference 2011 by Professor Javaid Rehman from Brunel Law School. The conference was hosted by the Brunel Law School on the 9th September 2011

PENGGUNAAN FINTECH PELAKU UMKM DI KULINER PASAR LAMA TANGERANG

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh tingkat kepercayaan dan peluang tantangan terhadap penggunaan fintech pelaku UMKM di kuliner pasar lama tangerang baik secara parsial maupun simultann di Kuliner Pasar Lama Tangerang. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode asosiatif dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Sampel penelitian ini adalah 80 responden pelaku UMKM di Kuliner Pasar Lama Tangerang. Teknik dan alat pengumpulan data adalah dengan kuesioner dan angket. Teknik analisis data deskriptif digunankan untuk mengetahui gambaran atas tanggapan jawaban responden dan sebaran data, sedangkan anlisis statistic inferensial untuk pengujian hipotesis. Pengolahan data dibantu dengan Microsoft excel dan software SPSS versi 25. Berdasarkan uji korelasi Tingkat Kepercayaan (X1) dan Peluang Tantangan (X2) dengan Penggunaan Fintech (Y) sebesar 80,8%, sisanya 19,2% dipengaruhi oleh variabel lain (X) yang tidak diteliti (epsilon) namun mempengaruhi Penggunaan Fintech (Y). jika diproyeksikan berdasarkan uji regresi berganda menunjukkan bahwa semakin tinggi Tingkat Kepercayaan (X1) DAN Peluang Tantangan (X2) secara bersamaan pada nilai tertentu, maka meningkatkan Penggunaan Fintech (Y) pada nilai tertentu pula. Pengaruh Tingkat Kepercayaan dan Peluang Tantangan secara simultan terhadap Penggunaan Fintech Pelaku UMKM di Kuliner Pasar Lama Tangerang. Secara parsial Tingkat Kepercayaan dan Peluang Tantangan masing-masing berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap perkembangan UMKM di Kuliner Pasar Lama Tangerang

Editorial: Muslim World Current Issues

Globalisation has proofed its self as a very spectacular phenomenon until no one may deny its impacts, but on the other hand, it reflexively suggests localization of the global. In this context, religion is not exclusion. It remains believed however, that religion still has its formula for solving the problems that emerged from globalisation. Scholars have devoted attempts to propose new ideas for this challenge. Local interpretations of symbols representing “global” Islam, for instance, increasingly grow in line with the growth of Islamic revival. This has drawn very much attention and responses from Muslims, whether to protest against or support for the new idea. The present edition of the journal is designed to more deeply explore the current issues from Muslim world, whether as very local phenomena or in a more global context

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It seems that redefinition of Islamic fields is a must. This is due to the fact that the Islamic fields require re-actualization, so that they will be beneficial not only for Muslim themselves, but also for non- Muslim. The former group can exercise it for their recent needs, meanwhile the latter may benefit from their re-actualized spirit for their own purposes. However, the efforts of the redefinition are not without barriers. It is often that its doers are claimed as liberal or even as apostate Muslims, although they based their redefinitions on reliable Islamic references. Nevertheless, destructive criticism has not weakened their spirit to deal with it. They have even been more eager to conduct it

Editorial: Globalization Toward Locality

Seemingly, Globalization, the recent world phenomenon, will get rid of all frontiers possessed by a state. This is due to the fact that each person, whatever citizenship the person possesses, may communicate with any one else wherever he or she live, and may move to any place to which he or she would like. Accordingly, the world phenomenon will play great roles in setting particularly socio-cultural, political, educational, and legal patterns and formulations of locality. However, this locality is an exception. It is a distinctive and peculiar border. The Great Tradition, possessed by the Reflective Few, is going to be hand in hand with the Little Tradition of the Unreflective Many to shield their local properties. They won’t let outsiders, through the globalization stream, destruct their local social structures, even though such consciousness belongs more greatly to the former group rather than the latter. However, the former is used to invite the latter to cooperate in handling foreign destructive influences

Islamism and Politics

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