Alfitri Alfitri

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris Samarinda

Despite the enactment of a specific law on domestic violence, the elimination of violence in the household is still an elusive target in Indonesia. A large number of Muslims’ divorces in the Religious Courts, for example, have involved domestic violence according to the National Commission on Anti Violence against Women. This article aims to discus...

No corporation is enthusiastic about paying tax, yet Islamic banks in Indonesia voluntarily pay corporate zakat. Why? The book analyzes corporate zakat norms and practices in Indonesia by investigating how Muslim jurists have interpreted sharīʿa of zakat and how these have been imposed through the legislative and regulatory framework. It also prese...

Private Islamic universities have developed rapidly in the quality of education and institutions since their establishment in 1945 in Indonesia. However, after almost eight decades of existence, do they still maintain the primary goal of its establishment to produce pious Muslim intellectuals - people who practice their religious knowledge and do p...

Although Indonesia has acceded to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and freedom of religion is a mandate of the 1945 Constitution, there is a significant difference between the promise and the practice of religious liberty, especially regarding the rights of sects in Indonesia. The article explores this theme in the context o...

Contemporary conflicts over efforts to expand the role of Islamic law in the national legal system of Indonesia are so intense that they undermine reasoned public debate about this question. They are part of a long-standing polemic, not only about the role of Shariah in Indonesia generally but about the specific question of whether the Jakarta Char...

Distributing inheritance in the Duri area, Enrekang Regency, South Sulawesi, is unique because it is carried out when the property owner is still alive to avoid conflicts between heirs later. In fact, according to Islamic legal norms, the distribution of inheritance should be carried out when the owner of the property has passed away. This study ai...

This research aims to strengthen the role and function of the Children's Social Welfare Institution (LKSA) of the Orphanage in the care and education of children, especially orphans from underprivileged, abandoned and exposed to promiscuity. Relevant journal articles are compiled using Harzing's Publish or Perish and the selected articles are publi...

This article probes whether methods of validating unregistered polygamy in Indonesian Religious Courts have honored the due process of law. Judges have adopted two different methods in validating unregistered polygamy: first, by ordering concerned parties to apply for the issuance of a retroactive marriage certificate (isbat nikah), and second, by...

Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengevaluasi kinerja keuangan Bank Syariah di Asia Tenggara (ASEAN) bukan hanya dari segi kinerja keuangan saja, tapi juga kepatuhan pada prinsip keadilan serta kehalalan menggunakan model Sharia Conformity and Profitability (SCnP). Model ini berfungsi untuk mengukur seberapa besar bank mampu memenuhi kepatuhannya terhad...

Abstrak: Dalam mengelola zakat diperlukan strategi yang baik. Pengelolaan zakat yang kurang terukur dan tanpa mekanisme yang baik tentu akan berpengaruh pada potensi zakat yang harusnya bisa lebih maksimal. Sebagai salah satu Unit Pengumpul Zakat, masjid ini memiliki potensi zakat yang cukup besar. Tapi saat ini realisasi pengumpulan zakat masih be...

Dalam mengelola zakat diperlukan strategi yang baik. Pengelolaan zakat yang kurang terukur dan tanpa mekanisme yang baik tentu akan berpengaruh pada potensi zakat yang harusnya bisa lebih maksimal. Sebagai salah satu Unit Pengumpul Zakat, masjid ini memiliki potensi zakat yang cukup besar. Tapi saat ini realisasi pengumpulan zakat masih belum optim...

The background of this research is to observe the reality that occurs in the field related to marriage registration, which seems to involve 'manipulation' of the date of the marriage contract that does not correspond to the existing reality. This clash arises because the latest PMA Number 20 of 2019 states that the registration of the intention to...

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh aktivitas jual beli bumbu masak yang menjual bumbunya tidak sama rata pada saat pengemasan serta tidak sesuai aturan dalam Pasal 22 Undang-Undang No 2 Tahun 1981 tentang Metrologi Legal dalam menakar timbangan atau tidak menggunakan alat ukur yang baku sesuai standar internasional. Tujuan dari penelitian ini aga...

Artikel ini membahas tentang adanya kasus perceraian gaib dengan nomor putusan 738/Pdt.G/2019/PA.Tgr, yang diajukan pada Pengadilan Agama Tenggarong. Gugatan gaib ialah gugatan perceraian yang diajukan oleh pihak istri (penggugat) terhadap suami (tergugat) yang tempat tinggal atau domisilinya tidak diketahui lagi keberadaannya. Gugatan cerai ini di...

This article probes whether methods of validating unregistered polygamy in Indonesian Religious Courts have honored the due process of law. Judges have adopted two different methods in validating unregistered polygamy: first, by ordering concerned parties to apply for the issuance of a retroactive marriage certificate (isbat nikah), and second, by...

Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menggali pemahaman mengenai konflik suami istri perspektif Al Qur’an. Penelitian ini difokuskan pada ayat Al Qur’an dengan tema nusyuz dan syiqaq, sebagai bentuk konflik rumah tangga dalam Al Quran. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kepustakaan dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif. Penelitian ini menggunakan data primer...

Metode pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam (PAI) konservatif tidak mampu mencapai tujuan pembelajarannya karena hanya menghasilkan siswa yang paham secara materi saja padahal ada aspek materi PAI yang perlu dipraktikan pada kegiatan sehari-hari. Teori belajar humanistik dianggap mampu untuk mengatasi kekurangan ini. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk m...

The condition of the Aqsa Damai Foundation, whose purpose is to contribute to outside Indonesia, is still able to exist despite the Covid-19 pandemic. The study aims to understand the strategy of the Aqha Samarinda Damai Foundation in conessllecting social assistance funds before and during the pandemic, as well as knowing the influencing factors i...

Tulisan ini diangkat oleh Penulis untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis problem yang di hadapi majelis hakim Pengadilan Agama dalam menyelesaikan perkara cerai gugat beda Negara, mengetahui dan menganalisis dasar pertimbangan dan landasan hukum yang di gunakan majelis hakim dalam menyelesaikan perkara tersebut. Hasil penelitian ini adalah sebagai berik...

The hearsay evidence is still debated as valid witness evidence in Indonesian civil procedural law. Consequently, there is a disparity in judges’ decisions in handling religious civil cases when the evidence is from “hearsay witnesses.” A case in point is the decision on the application for marriage legalization issued by the Samarinda Religious Co...

This chapter looks at the approach adopted by Islamic commercial banks to finance their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. When Islamic commercial banks pay their corporate zakat, do they deem the zakat paid to be a source of their CSR funds or do they budget for a CSR fund separately? How this distinction affects the implementation of...

The legitimacy of corporate zakat interpretation and imposition is not an issue in Indonesia's implementation. However, channeling the corporate zakat must be examined since it relates to the subjects’ views on zakat bureaucratization in Indonesia. This chapter examines where Islamic commercial banks distribute their corporate zakat: do they direct...

Some Indonesian companies have observed paying corporate zakat, despite its ambiguous Islamic jurisprudence and Indonesian law. This chapter explores how Indonesia's corporate community views corporate zakat's legitimacy and which ethical, religious, or secular values corporate payers (and non-payers) identify within this newly mandated practice. I...

This chapter discusses the legislative and regulatory process of imposing corporate zakat in Indonesian law. It looks at how corporate zakat became a new social policy area regulated and managed by Indonesia's state. Doing this would allow us to understand better the overarching question of who has the authority to impose the obligation of corporat...

This chapter focuses on how Indonesia's Islamic jurists (ulama) have responded to corporate zakat as a new religious obligation in Islam and constituted Islamic law in Indonesia. It analyzes the ulama's opinions to understand their methods and arguments in advancing their opinions and what this says about Indonesia's Islamic authority. The Council...

This presentation seeks to explain the use of empirical legal research in studying issues in Islamic Law. Its objectives are three folds: first, to clarify the position of the empirical legal research as a research method in legal research and Islamic legal research in particular; second, to exemplify its use in an Islamic legal problem (i.e. compl...

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This presentation is taken from a chapter of my book forthcoming with Routledge in 2022, which analyzes laws/regulations related to corporate zakat or Zakat Perusahaan and its practices in Indonesia. In this chapter, I try to find out the relationship between corporate zakat and CSR practices within Islamic Commercial Banks (ICBs) by focusing on th...

The Constitutional Court seems inconsistent when examining the same norms but in a different decision related to the constitutionality of the minimum married age limit for women. In the 2014 decision, the Court rejected the petition, while in the 2017 decision, the Court accepted it. This paper analyzes the considerations of constitutional judges i...

Istilah zakat perusahaan makin sering terdengar seiring dengan maraknya kampanye keuangan sosial Islam di media massa. Sayangnya, kampanye tersebut belum diikuti dengan penjelasan yang memadai tentang konsep zakat perusahaan. Ada anggapan bahwa zakat perusahaan adalah zakat penghasilan para karyawan yang disalurkan oleh perusahaan tempat mereka bek...

The state has given de-jure recognition of the Council of Indonesian Ulama's (MUI) authority in establishing sharīʿa principles for the running of Islamic financial service in Indonesia. Given this extensive design, does MUI then expand this authority into other Islamic law fields, and if so, why and how MUI does that. This paper aims to examine MU...

Despite the enactment of a specific law on domestic violence, the elimination of violence in the household is still an elusive target in Indonesia. A large number of Muslims’ divorces in the Religious Courts, for example, have involved domestic violence according to the National Commission on Anti Violence against Women. This article aims to discus...

The great Islamic mass rally which well known as “Aksi Bela Islam (Defending Islam action) 212” in Indonesia has always been claimed as the triumph of Islamic activism. This action continue to be voiced through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and so forth with the jargon “ 212 spirit “. The voluminous actions of “Aksi Bela Islam...

This article investigates the extent of state intervention in the administration of Islam in Indonesia. The 1945 Constitution of Indonesia does not explicitly recognize or privilege any particular religion. Yet, the boundaries of religion-state relations in the country are often unclear and complex, especially in light of policies and laws that reg...

This article is based on the fact that there is still the disparity of decisions among the Religious Court Judges on heirs, especially a child (walad), when handling the inheritance disputes. This is because there is a general provision of the meaning of walad contained in the Indonesian Compilation of Islamic Law (KHI) in which it includes both a...

This article seeks to analyse the role of Religious Courts’ (Pengadilan Agama or PA) Judges in the formation of Islamic law in Indonesia. As part of the civil legal system, PA Judges are bound by legal provisions in handling legal disputes in court. They must apply the applicable legal provisions to decide upon a case. This condition can also be un...

The history of zakat administration in Indonesia is marked by an ongoing dialectic between individual spirituality and the public realm and the state (Fauzia, 2013). The latter has furthermore been the sites of continuing contestation in modern times between Muslim civil society groups vis-a-vis the government and its apparatus which give birth to...

The history of the zakat administration in Indonesia is marked by an ongoing dialectic between individual spirituality and the public realm and the state (Fauzia, 2013). The latter has further been the sites of continuing contestation in modern times between Muslim civil society groups vis-a-vis the government and its apparatus, giving birth to the...

This article examines the history of the evolution of Islamic legal authority in Indonesia and provides an account of how it is contested and negotiated in contemporary Indonesia, using the history of family law reform as an example. There is a plurality of sources of authority for Islamic law as they operate within the domain of family law. The ca...

This study focuses on the development of concept and practice of corporate zakat (obligatory alms under Islamic law payable by business entities) in Indonesia. The key issues are: who has the authority to (1) interpret and (2) impose corporate zakat in Indonesia; whether (3) the creation of this corporate obligation is viewed as legitimate by the c...

Artikel ini adalah untuk membahas status perempuan dalam teks-teks agama Islam, terutama ayat-ayat Quran dan Hadis teks yang dianggap "misoginis." Ada kebutuhan mendesak untuk membaca kembali teks-teks agama Islam karena mereka digunakan oleh ulama klasik untuk menghasilkan fikih mereka. Fikih klasik tadi, bersama-sama dengan teks, diadopsi oleh um...

Unlike other Muslim countries, Indonesia does not make any reference to sharia as a source of legislation in its Constitution. Despite the fact, some aspects of sharia have been incorporated into Indonesian legal system. These “Islamic” state laws have been challenged by Muslims in Indonesia since their very first enactment in 1970s and now they fi...

Are the objective of Indonesia “promoting the general welfare”, and the fifth principle of Pancasila “social justice for all people of Indonesia”, as well as the constitutional mandate to hold a social security system must be expressed in terms of the state positions itself to be responsible for ensuring a decent standard of living for all citizens...

This article is to discuss the impact of legal reform project between Indonesian and Australian government in assisting women, the poor and those living in remote areas to access the judiciary in Indonesia. Through the program access to the Religious Courts for divorce cases, for example, women are able to document their role as female heads of hou...

This article is to discuss the impact of legal reform project between Indonesian and Australian government in assisting women, the poor and those living in remote areas to access the judiciary in Indonesia. Through the program access to the Religious Courts for divorce cases, for example, women are able to document their role as female heads of hou...

Can death penalty or corporal punishment be imposed by a state since it is required by the Shariah, but, at the same time, it is against state’s obligation to guarantee civil rights as documented in such international human right laws as ICCPR and CAT? This article is to analyse the so called conflict of law between the requirements of Islamic crim...

As the number of Indonesians migrating to foreign countries grows, so do the remittances they send back to Indonesia. The amounts are significant. The World Bank's Migration and remittance Factbook noted that in 2008 Indonesia ranked thirteenth in world's top remittance-receiving countries. In 2006 Indonesia received inward remittance flows of 5.72...

Criminal law deals with the protection of public interests and values deemed to be crucial ones for a particular society. In Islam, these values are ascribed to the divine commands. Thus, there will be calls from some Muslims for the implementation of Islamic criminal law by the state for they believe that this is required by Islam. Can therefore d...

This article aims at analysing the international legal personality of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and its significance for nowadays war against terrorism. As an international organization, the OIC lacks of a body enforcing recommendation and resolution adopted by the organization. As a consequence, the OIC is deemed to be a mar...

The redistributive economic impact of zakat depends on how it is administered, especially with regard to collection and distribution. Unfortunately, the administration of zakat in Indonesia is not adequate, and therefore the full potential of zakat has not yet been realized. Indonesia's difficulty in zakat management stems from the fact that Indone...

Wacana tentang tertutupnya pintu ijtihad telah menjadi isu sentral dalam diskusi hukum Islam, karena berkait dengan eksistensi hukum Islam dalam kehidupan: apakah hukum Islam itu statis sehingga pengikutnya harus menerima begitu saja apa yang telah dirumuskan oleh para fuqaha (ahli hukum Islam) di abad pertengahan lalu? Atau hukum Islam itu bersifa...

This article aims to provide an analysis about the relationship between religion and state in Islamic perspective, with critical observation on Islamic, ideal-moral of politics and its historical reality. For that, this article tries to discuss the Islamic precepts of politics in the Koranand Prophet traditions, let alone their practice in Islamic...