Within the context of Indonesia as a muslim majority country, Islamic teaching has been widely implemented throughout the country. As a result, Islamic values have become the foundation and basic values within societal economic practices. These values, among others, include social and economic justice and equality. However, these values are not always implemented when people's injustice and greed are in play. One of the cases that can provide example in this case is the relationship between catfish farmers and distributors in Wonotunggal, Batang, Central Java. As a commodity with high economical value, many farmers grow catfish. Thus, there was a big need for catfish distributors to facilitate the rising numbers of catfish farmers, to help them sell the catfish. However, there were many distributors who made attempt to control the market, which give disadvantages to the farmers. One of the examples of such disadvantageous practices is 'ijon', or lending money to the farmers with high interest. As a result many farmers were trapped into debt. This study aims at exploring the relationship between catfish farmers and distributors in Siwatu Village, Wonotunggal, Batang.Keywords: Distributor, Catfish Farm, Patron-Client Relation Abstrak: Keberadaan ajaran Islam yang sarat akan pesan moral, tidak diperuntukkan bagi sebagian golongan saja, melainkan rahmatan li al-'alamin (berlaku universal). Implikasinya, dalam mendistribusikan kesejahteraan-kemakmuran, harus selalu berpijak pada nilai keadilan dan pemerataan. Namun dalam praktiknya, nilai moral luhur ini berhadapan dengan nafsu keserakahan manusia, yang tidak segan melakukan penindasan dalam mengeksplorasi sumber-sumber kekayaan. Hal ini juga nampak dalam relasi antara petani lele dan tengkulak di Batang. Jawa Tengah. Sebagai komoditas yang punya nilai ekonomis, membuat petani berlomba membudidayakannya. Seiring dengan merebaknya budidaya lele, muncul tengkulak, yang awalnya membantu petani dalam memasarkan budidayanya. Hubungan mulai berkembang dalam pola patron-klien, di mana tengkulak mulai mengendalikan sekaligus menindas petani dengan keunggulan modal dan daya tawar yang dimilikinya. Seringkali ini didahului dengan praktik ijon di mana tengkulak memberikan kredit rente yang mengakibatkan petani lele terjerat hutang berlipat. Penelitian ini bertujuan menguak proses terjadinya hubungan patron-klien antara petani dengan tengkulak sekaligus melihat kekuatan daya ikat hubungan ini dalam budidaya lele, khususnya di Desa Siwatu, Kecamatan Wonotunggal Kabupaten Batang.

Abstract:As a cultural rite in Indonesia, especially among Javanese, Sumpah Pocong (a kind of oath, which wore an Islamic gown and/or held by Islamic rites for a death man) is an unique rite. Nevertheless looked a like Islamic rites, but it has never found in classical or modern Islamic book of fiqh. The uniqueness guessed that it has made up from acculturation process among Indonesian fuqahā to solve a problem of less or no single evidence in social dispute such calumnies or admission claims. They (Indonesian fuqahā) has modified the institutions in Islamic norm about evidence (mubāhalah and li'ān oath) as a kind of acceptable rite among Indonesian moslem, culturally -that we know recently as Sumpah Pocong. Nevertheless, the refusal views came from puritanist, refused of it as a part of Islamic norm (syari'ah, fiqh). They noted that Sumpah Pocong as a kind bid'ah practices and not a part of syari'a. Hence, it must be abandoned and eliminated from Islamic legal iuris (fiqh). According to me, this puritan's view is unfriendly toward local wisdom that lie on Sumpah Pocong, as traditional rite that based on acculturation of Islamic norm with local practices. This research aimed to refuse those puritan's accusation and prove otherwise that Sumpah Pocong is legally true as a part of fiqh. Eventhough, it can be proved using classical ushuliyah method, qiyas, I did so with cultural fiqh contruction approaches. The using of this method grounded the distinctively (Indonesian) cultural fiqh construction, that is more friendly toward local cultural practices in Indonesia, but firmly-still hold Islamic principles. So, I had to construct first this tolerant concept by summarising the Islamic cultural concept of Hasbi as-Shiddiqy, Munawir Sadzali, and Abdurrahman Wahid, in order to bridge the gap between cultural practices and Islamic principles.Kata Kunci: sumpah pocong; fiqh kultural; al-'adah muĥakkamah; legitimasi PendahuluanSumpah pocong, merupakan suatu lembaga dalam budaya masyarakat (khususnya Jawa) yang digunakan untuk menyelesaikan persengketaan/perselisihan seperti misalnya soal warisan, turun-temurunnya harta, atau utang-piutang, hingga tuduhan atau fitnah (Sumpah Pocong...Iwan Zaenul Fuad)

Abstract. However, Nikah Siri (unregistered marital) has been seen as a part of the social behavior, and lived in Indonesian society. This behavior often impact living condition of social structure. In another side, this social problem must be fixed with appropriate law-making system. The Act Plan of "Hukum Peradilan Agama Bidang Perkawinan" (RUU HPABP) was noted in commitment to criminalize the behavior. Some sounds of pro and anti toward this Act Plan nowadays, make this issues more interesting be reseacrhed. Applying symbolic interactionism approach and labelling theory, this study examined the criminalization issues on the Act Plan in social framework. The framework is critical to assume the effectiveness of law making process based on people participation. This research took place in Pekalongan District (the City and Regency of Pekalongan), which is noted for the 'hidden' large number of nikah siri practices. Results of the study revealed the social criminalization of Nikah Siri akin to kinds of people's perception toward the behavior. The hidden types of Nikah Siri (hidden from people's knowledge) had an effect on social construction to criminalize the behavior, but not the open one.Kata Kunci: Nikah siri, perkawinan, hukum, peradilan agama *. Peneliti adalah dosen Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri (STAIN) Pekalongan.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji kualitas pelayanan akademik di Pekalongan STAIN dengan membandingkan siswa harapan dengan persepsi mereka terhadap pelayanan akademik mereka diterima. SERVQUAL instrumen digunakan untuk mengukur kualitas dimensi yang memiliki lima aspek yaitu keandalan, tanggap, jaminan, empati dan bukti fisik. Hasilnya adalah kesenjangan antara harapan dan persepsi. Kemudian, itu diuji apakah kesenjangan ini adalah signifikan atau tidak dengan menggunakan Wilcoxon Menandatangani uji Rank. Langkah selanjutnya untuk menghasilkan berguna analisis bagi para pengambil keputusan dengan menggunakan Kinerja Penting Analysis (IPA). Hasil pengujian menunjukkan bahwa baik semua item atau dimensi memiliki kesenjangan negatif. Ini berarti bahwa akademik kualitas pelayanan di Pekalongan STAIN masih memerlukan beberapa perbaikan.