The utilization of Islamic social finance instruments is far behind what is expected. To realize its full potential, Islamic social finance instruments must be integrated. This study examined solutions and priority strategies for integrating sustainable Islamic social finance that could be implemented in the short and long term using the Benefit, Opportunity, Cost, and Risk (BOCR) framework, which includes six aspects: Governance, sustainable financing, institutional aspect, human resources, regulations, and supporting technology. This qualitative research employed the Analytic Network Process (ANP) method using the benefit, opportunity, cost, and risk analysis. The data were obtained mainly through focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with respondents among academics, practitioners, associations, regulators, and community leaders. The respondents were selected for their expertise and experience in the selected topic. The data were processed using the Microsoft Excel and Super Decision software. There are several findings worth considering from the analysis. First, the highest priority in integrating Islamic social finance aspects are human resources (0.97), regulation (0.86), and technology (0.76). Second, based on the short- and long-term analysis, financial integration through sustainable financing (0.01 and 1.44, respectively) and improving human resource quality through certification and training (0.01 and 1.56, respectively) is a priority solution and strategy to integrate sustainable Islamic social finance. Meanwhile, according to expert judgments, integrating national data (0.24) and optimizing technology use (0.18) are priority solutions and strategies. The findings emphasize the critical role of improving human resource quality to utilize technology, with experts identifying a national data integration as the most critical solution. As a result, relevant stakeholders are concerned about technology management training for Islamic philanthropic managers, with the goal of maximizing the potential of technology’s growing role and adoption.

This study aims to analyze the influence of the components of the Theory of Planned Behavior, which consists of positive attitude, peer influence, and zakat knowledge  on the compliance behavior of paying zakat profession with the intention to pay zakat as an intervening variable update case in covid 19. This research is a quantitative study using the Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) technique. The sample used  is 100 respondents based on the calculation of the Slovin formula with 129 respondents of zakat profession payers (muzakki) in Indonesia. Empirical findings indicate that a positive attitude and zakat knowledge positively and significantly affect the intention to pay zakat. The intention to pay zakat has a significant positive effect on the compliance behavior of paying zakat profession even during covid 19. Meanwhile, peer influence has no significant impact on the intention to pay zakat due to the Covid 19 era. Policymakers need to pay more attention to the factors that have been identified in this study as essential factors to become a reference in developing strategies to increase zakat collection. Zakat is one of potential Islamic social fund to eradicate poverty as impact of the Covid 19 pandemic.

Macroeconomic factors are indicators to be considered by fund managers and investors before allocating funds for investment. The study aims to discover a causal relationship and test for long-term relationship between macroeconomic variables consisting of inflation, interest rate and currency exchange rate against Islamic mutual funds. The research used secondary monthly data related to macroeconomic variables and Islamic mutual funds during 2011-2016. This study uses a quantitative approach with a model of Vector Auto Regression (VAR). The empirical results show that there are no long-term relationship between the variables of inflation, interest rates, and exchange rate against Islamic mutual fund. Granger causality test shows that the three variables of inflation, interest rates, and exchange rates has no causal relationship, but there are two one-way relationships, which include the interest rate and Islamic mutual funds, and Islamic mutual funds and the exchange rate.