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This article explores Jamal al Banna's view on the realtion between religion and state, particularly his views on the relation system between Islam and state, and the related issues such as democracy, pluralism, and secularism. The article, therefore, describes issues on the concept of ummah in Islam, democracy within Islamic governmental system, and Islam's view on secularism and pluralism. Th…
This article investigates an involvement of the goverment of the Municipaltiy of Padang in West Sumatra in managing zakat institution, namely BAZDA [Badan Amil Zakat Daerah]. It argues that the intentions of the mayor in managing the zakat institution aimed to provide an alternative financial source in order to support his position at the mayor. Zakat payers [Muzakki], collector [amil], kinds o…
The current domination of conventional economics makes Muslims are faced with historical expectations, as well as a considerable challenge, especially with regard to the economic system. The current world economic system, that is capitalism, has a basic prinsiple of maximum benefit with limited resources. Efforts of capitalist are supported by the values of freedom to fulfill the needs. Humans …
Various criteria have been formulated to determine whether or not someone should be classified as an intellectual.These criteria range from patterns from recruitment to responeses to various cultural or political movements.This paper is devoted, however, to examining the rise of muslim intellectuals in Indonesia in the last three decades of twentieth century.
Distance university has a such unique characteristic that differentiates it with the conventional one. Universitas Terbuka [UT] is one of distance education institutions in the world. As a distance university, UT does not employs face to face learning but provides delivery of learning materials through various learning support. This research focuses on the optimal usage of writing 1 tutorial on…
This paper explains the principles of local goverment rule underthe Regional Autonomy Provision [UU No. 32/2004 tentang Otonomi Daerah]. After the fall of New Order Regime, the Indonesian goverment tried to stimulate local goverment in practicing decentralization and regional autonomy. This policy is done to reform the government system from centralization into decentralization in which the loc…
Tulisan ini melaporkan hasil kajian pustaka dan penelitian empiris untuk mengevaluasi validitas internel lintas-budaya Inventori Gaya Berpikir dan teori mental self-government (Sternberg,2002), yang di satu sisi cukup berpengaruh, namun disisi lain dipandang memiliki konstruk yang lemah. Pertanyaan utama dalam studi ini adalah apakah gaya berpikir saling terkait dan memiliki dimensionalitas ses…