The management of the Central Leadership Council and the Regional Leadership Council of the Indonesian Islamic Economists Association (IAEI) East Java held an audience with the Sidoarjo Halal Industrial Estate (KIH) represented by PT Makmur Berkah Amanda Tbk (AMAN) as the developer and manager of the Halal Industrial Park Sidoarjo (HIPS) and Sustainable Investment Village (InTan) on Thursday (11/8) in Surabaya, East Java.
The IAEI Central Board was attended by Astera Primanto Bhakti as Secretary General of IAEI as well as Director General of Fiscal Balance of the Ministry of Finance, Irfan Syauqi Beik as Vice Chairman VI, Prof. Dian Masyita as Chairperson of the Zakat and Waqf Development Division, Dr. Murniati Mukhlisin as Vice Chairman of the Educational Human Resources Development Division, Dr. Sutan Emir Hidayat as Vice Chairman of Research and Scientific Development, Dr. Tika Arundina as Secretary VI and Dr. Haryadi as Secretary VII.
The development of KIH is part of one of the government programmes through the National Committee for Sharia Economics and Finance (KNEKS) and HIPS is the first and largest KIH in Indonesia and has been operating globally since 2021. HIPS is built on 148 hectares of land and has implemented a sustainable halal ecosystem. As an industrial area that is committed to the concept of halal, sustainable and integrated, HIPS is supported by various facilities and services that are guaranteed halal, a comfortable & well-maintained environment, and a community that supports industrial development in carrying out its business activities.
A number of inputs were conveyed by the IAEI management in the audience to HIPS. Among them are to explore alternative financing instruments such as Securities Crowdfunding (SCF) and waqf. SCF is a method of raising funds with a joint venture scheme carried out by business owners or businesses to start or develop their business. As for waqf, referring to Law No. 41/2004 on Waqf, waqf is a waqif's legal action to separate and/or transfer part of his/her property to be utilised forever or for a certain period of time in accordance with his/her interests for the purposes of worship and/or public welfare according to sharia.
Another important outcome of the hearing was the potential for cooperation in improving sharia economic and financial literacy. Related to literacy, especially the Islamic capital market sector, the IAEI board also held an audience with Kampung InTan. Kampung InTan is a form or another name for IDe AsSALAM which was launched by the Secretary General of IAEI, Astera Primanto Bhakti, on 29 October 2021. The innovator of IDe AsSALAM is Dr Fatmah, M.M., RSA, Treasurer of DPW IAEI East Java who is also the Chairperson of the IAEI UINSA Commissariat.
The IAEI UINSA Commissariat in collaboration with the Sharia Investment Gallery (GIS) of the Faculty of Islamic Business Economics (FEBI) UINSA is the motor of IAEI East Java in socialisation and education to the community, including in fostering GIS-GIS in the IAEI Commissariat network in East Java to be able to operate and excel and foster waste management into shares in a number of areas known as the Village Initiation of Nabung Saham Modal Sampah (IDe AsSALAM).
The Kampung InTan initiation was initiated from the results of the 2019 National Survey on Financial Literacy and Inclusion which showed that the government's financial literacy and inclusion improvement programme was still low, uneven, and had not reached the 10 priority targets. The IAEI UINSA Commissariat in collaboration with GIS FEBI UINSA then initiated waste processing and reduction, especially household waste. This is also intended to implement the five priority programmes of the Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs, one of which is Increasing Productivity and Competitiveness. In order to support the programme and contribute to the improvement of Indonesia's financial literacy and inclusion index according to the President's target of 90% in 2024, IDe AsSALAM was initiated to improve investment literacy and inclusion for the realisation of an investment society and poverty-free and environmentally friendly villages.
