Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk memahami kesadaran etika syariah pelaku perbankan dalam pembiayaan mudarabah bank syariah. Penelitian menggunakan paradigma Islam melalui adopsi pendekatan fenomenologi Islam, melalui wawancara terhadap tiga orang pelaku perbankan BNI Syariah cabang Samarinda dan satu orang ahli fikih. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kesadaran etika syariah pelaku perbankan berdasar pada nilai hasanah, dakwah, dan matematika akhirat dalam pemberian layanan pembiayaan mudarabah, melalui kepatuhan terhadap norma syariah yang mengatur akad mudarabah.   Abstract: Exploring the Sharia Ethical Values of Mudharabah Financing. The purpose of this research is to understand the awareness of sharia ethics in banking actors in Islamic bank mudarabah financing. This research uses the Islamic paradigm through the adoption of the Islamic phenomenology approach, through interviews with three BNI Syariah banking actors in the Samarinda branch and one jurisprudence expert. The results show that the awareness of sharia ethics in banking actors is based on the value of hasanah, da'wah, and the hereafter mathematics in providing mudarabah financing services, through compliance with sharia norms that govern the mudarabah contract.

AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan efisiensi dan stabilitas PT Bank Syariah Indonesia, Tbk. (BSI) setelah penggabungan dari tiga bank syariah milik pemerintah Indonesia. Pendiskripsian melalui metode uji beda dengan t-Test Paired Two Sample for Means pada efisiensi dan stabilitas sembilan periode sebelum merger dan sembilan periode setelah merger. Pengukuran efisiensi berdasarkan pada pendekatan data envelopment analysis (DEA), sementara pengukuran stabilitas berdasarkan pada Z-score. Hasil pengujian menunjukkan bahwa efisiensi dan stabilitas BSI setelah merger semakin baik secara signifikan dibandingkan efisiensi dan stabilitas tiga bank syariah (PT BRISyariah, Tbk., PT Bank Syariah Mandiri, dan PT Bank BNI Syariah). Penelitian ini merekomendasikan peningkatan efisiensi dan stabilitas BSI melalui peningkatan konsentrasi pasar berbasis teknologi dan menghindari diversifikasi pendapatan yang menjadi salah satu penyebab instabilitas bank setelah merger. Kata kunci: Efisiensi; stabilitas; merger Are Indonesian Islamic banks more efficient and stable after the merger?

In the era of globalization, regions is required to increase their capacity to meet the needs of the society. Unfortunately not all regions have advantages in their efforts to fulfill the welfare of its people. There are regions that do not have a significant level of income so the economic growth relatively slow. This situation need to be overcome by the local government by implementing specific strategies that are expected to be an alternative to increase the regional income. One of the strategy that can be taken by the local government is to carry out some cooperation with another actors from outside the country. The cooperation is expected to bring investment which can bring positive results for regional development, including the welfare of the people. However, before carrying out foreign cooperation, the local government must be able to form a regional branding which is expected to be a unique value for foreign parties to work together. In this article we try to provide input for the local government of Kabupaten Serang to form a special branding for the region. Through this research, we hope to help Kabupaten Serang to design strategic foreign cooperation and by the end produce many benefits for the society