Arskal SalimAzyumardi Azra (eds.), Shari'a and Politics in Modern Indonesia

Factors Affecting the Performance of Sharia Equity Funds in Indonesia

By the end of 2018, the net asset value in total and the number of Sharia mutual funds in Indonesia is dominated by the Sharia equity fund. Therefore, this study sought to address the factors of internal and external factors affecting the Sharia equity funds’ performance in Indonesia in the period 2010-2018. The fund performance is measured with the Sharpe ratio. The determinants of fund perfor...

Indonesia : the politics of inclusion

Weapons of Mass Destruction in Context; Investigating the Links between Militarization and Godlessness of Modern Politics

Modern brutality, which found its culmination in using weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against humanity, is the dark side of the principal teachings of the Enlightenment. The great thinkers of the Enlightenment, blaming religion as the main source of violence, removed God from the center of Western political and social thought to replace it with human. Although they were not conscious of the ...

Intergenerational cohabitation in modern Indonesia: filial support and dependence.

Informal filial care plays an important role for elderly parents facing health challenges. Ageing, however, exacerbates the burden of filial care because the ratio of older to younger individuals is higher and disabled parents live longer. The well-being of elderly parents is even more insecure in Asian developing countries that are undergoing unprecedented ageing and drastic changes in social ...

How Politics Shaped Modern Banking in Early Modern England: Rethinking the Nature of Representative Democracy, Public Debt, and Modern Banking

The recent sovereign debt crisis raises a debate on whether the cancelation of sovereign debt is compatible with democracy. Scholars opposed to the cancelation of sovereign debt refer to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, in which the British government began to make the people as a whole liable for the obligations incurred by their government. These scholars argue that this commitment formed the...