Ruslan Abdul Ghofur
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
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The research discusses the concept of distribution in the Islamic Economic System in that it is a conviction that the Islamic economy covered the concept of distribution weighed with justice, moral, and norm values considered as Indonesian personalities. Furthermore, this research tries to explore the meeting point between the reformation agenda of the Indonesian economy and the Islamic one to apply the distribution concept into the system of Indonesian economy. The research problem includes: first, how is the concept of distribution in the Islamic Economic System? Second, how are the compatibility of the distribution concept in the Islamic Economic System and the reformation agenda of the Indonesian economy? Third, how could the distribution instrument in the Islamic Economic System include in the Indonesian Economy? The research uses a library method applying the combined approaches of philosophy and phenomenology. The philosophical approach is applied to deeply figure out the material object of philosophy from values, principles, economic aims and policies, to the distribution concepts embedded of the Islamic Economic System. Meanwhile, the phenomenological approach is to explore the development of Indonesia economy described either in the society in a statistical data or in the reference works of books, documents, papers and research. The finding of the research is: First, the Islamic Economy System aimed to support society's welfare, to realize the Maqasid as Syariah, and to uphold the justice values, so the significant base in distribution level is 'So that it will not be a perpetual distribution among the rich from among you' (al-Hasyr (7: 59). The concept of distribution based on the foundation covers: 1. Principles of distribution from: a. gharar/ usury prohibition, b. justice in distribution, c. the acknowledgment of personal property, to d. prohibition of material accumulation. 2. The institution of distribution: government and society. 3. The instruments of distribution from Alms, Benefaction, Inheritance, Infak and Sedekah. Second, the Islamic economy has an important position supporting the reformation of Indonesian economy based on: a. the major Indonesian population is Muslim (88.8%), b. the potency of Islamic based - financial institutions provided the products of the cooperation mechanism and the other pro-public-economic acts. c. the concept of distribution in Islamic economy strongly pays attention to the need of public economy. Third, the instrument of Islamic Economic System is present in the Indonesian Economy applying comprehensively the concept of distribution in the Islamic Economy System into the system of the Indonesian Economy.