This paper investigates the impact of profit and loss sharing (PLS) contracts on non-performing financing of Islamic rural banks as Islamic small banks focus on small and medium enterprises at province level across country. Our study employs panel data, consisting of 142 Islamic rural banks and using quarterly data from 2013Q1 to 2018Q4, and splits them based on the bank's size and geographical area. Both static and dynamic panel regressions are then applied. The results obviously indicate that a high proportion of profit and loss sharing contracts leads to high financing risk. The large Islamic banks encounter a higher non-performing financing stemming from profit and loss contracts compared to small Islamic banks. Profit and loss contracts also produce higher financing risk for Islamic banks outside Java, as those areas are less developed areas than Java itself. A more efficient Islamic bank is less financing risk. Income diversification lessens the impaired financing and, more particularly, large Islamic banks and Islamic banks located in Java much benefit by diversifying income and financing to lower financing risk. Our study suggests that Islamic rural banks may consider the optimal level of profit and loss sharing contracts to minimize financing risk.

The COVID-19 outbreak has had a severe impact on nearly all industries, including Islamic banking, which plays a significant role but is exposed to higher risk. This study aims to evaluate the credit risk that Islamic banks in Indonesia have been exposed to related to home financing before and during the COVID-19 outbreak. Panel data are employed covering the period January 2016 to September 2020 on a monthly basis. The data were analyzed using a dynamic panel approach to present a distinct picture of Sharia-compliant property financing before and during the COVID-19 outbreak. In general, the findings show that the macroeconomic variable reflected by regional inflation has had a different influence in the two periods, with Islamic banks having had much more exposure to macroeconomic risk, specifically in home financing, during the epidemic. In addition, the different influences are also shown by the study results, which show that provinces on Java Island face less risk exposure than those outside Java. In terms of impulse response factors and variance decompositions’ result, before the outbreak, the response of home financing risk to inflation tended to be more stable. However, during the outbreak, the movement has tended to fluctuate more, especially outside Java Island. The same result for variance decompositions shows a similar trend, with inflation tending to have a larger impact during the outbreak. AcknowledgmentsWe are grateful to the Direktorat Penelitian dan Pengabdian Masyarakat (DPPM) Universitas Islam Indonesia No. 001/Dir/DPPM/70/Pen.Unggulan/XII/2020 for support and providing a research grant for the study.

This paper investigates the extent to which sectoral financing concentration affects the Islamic banks' profitability in Indonesia. As additional control variables, we include bank-specific and macroeconomic conditions. This study utilizes the aggregated financial statements of Islamic banks in Indonesia from January 2010 through December 2019 and analyzed with the Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. The results confirm cointegration evidence, demonstrating the long-term relationship between the dependent and independent variables. The results clearly indicate that sectoral financing concentration increases the profitability of Islamic banks. Furthermore, excessive financing and high non-performing financing reduce the profitability of Islamic banks. As a financial sector, Islamic banks' performance is contingent on favorable economic and macroeconomic conditions, such as high economic growth and low inflation. These findings imply that Islamic banks must employ skilled workers who are experts in related economic sectors, which is one of the primary goals of Islamic bank financing.========================================================================================================== ABSTRAK – Konsentrasi Pembiayaan Sektoral dan Profitabilitas Bank Syariah di Indonesia. Tulisan ini mengkaji sejauh mana konsentrasi pembiayaan sektoral mempengaruhi profitabilitas bank syariah di Indonesia. Sebagai variabel kontrol tambahan, kami menyertakan kondisi spesifik bank dan variabel makroekonomi. Penelitian ini menggunakan agregat laporan keuangan bank syariah di Indonesia dari Januari 2010 sampai Desember 2019 dan dianalisis dengan model Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL). Hasil kajian mengkonfirmasi bukti kointegrasi, yang menunjukkan hubungan jangka panjang antara variabel dependen dan independen. Hasil kajian memperjelas bahwa konsentrasi pembiayaan sektoral dapat meningkatkan profitabilitas bank syariah, sementara pembiayaan yang berlebihan dan pembiayaan bermasalah yang tinggi mengurangi profitabilitas bank syariah. Sebagai institusi yang bergerak di sektor keuangan, kinerja bank syariah sangat bergantung pada kondusifitas sistem ekonomi dan kondisi makroekonomi, seperti pertumbuhan ekonomi yang tinggi dan inflasi yang rendah. Temuan ini menyiratkan bahwa bank syariah harus mempekerjakan pekerja terampil yang ahli di sektor ekonomi terkait, yang merupakan salah satu tujuan utama pembiayaan bank syariah.

This study investigates whether Islamic rural banks perform better than conventional rural banks as their competitor in Indonesia. To measure Islamic rural banks' financial performance, we apply financial stability using Z-score and profitability using the return on assets. We use monthly time series data from January 2009 to December 2018. The dynamic regression of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model is then employed. The results report that the Z-Score of Islamic rural banks is higher than the Z-Score of conventional rural banks. This finding shows that Islamic rural banks are less risky than conventional rural banks. However, the Islamic rural banks' financial stability is very vulnerable to changes in equity, output, and inflation than conventional rural banks. Although the Islamic rural banks' profit rate is lower compared to conventional rural banks, it is considered more stable. The profit of Islamic rural banks is affected by size, equity, domestic output, and inflation.

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