Ethical Contracts vs. Commercial Realities in Indonesian Sharia Insurance

This article examined legal issues within Indonesia's Sharia insurance industry, focusing on implementing dual contracts combining tabarru’ (voluntary) and tijarah (business) agreements. The qualitative study used secondary data and a taxonomic technique to identify legal challenges. Ideally, t...

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Main Author: Istianah Zainal Asyiqin
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Language:Indonesian
Published: University of Lampung 2025-02-01
Series:Fiat Justisia
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Online Access:https://jurnal.fh.unila.ac.id/index.php/fiat/article/view/3635
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description This article examined legal issues within Indonesia's Sharia insurance industry, focusing on implementing dual contracts combining tabarru’ (voluntary) and tijarah (business) agreements. The qualitative study used secondary data and a taxonomic technique to identify legal challenges. Ideally, the contract structure should separate the management of these two agreements, with tabarru’ as the primary contract and tijarah as supplementary. However, the findings revealed that Indonesia's takaful industry prioritized the supplementary tijarah contract over the primary tabarru’. This issue resulted in inadequate separation of tabarru’ and tijarah funds, leading to the mixing of returns from both sectors. This practice contradicted the fatwas issued by the National Sharia Council-The Indonesian Ulama Council (DSN-MUI) regarding Islamic insurance.Additionally, the article identifies ambiguities within some DSN-MUI guidelines. To address these issues, the article proposed an alternative contract scheme from the perspective of fiqh al-mu'amalah (Islamic economic law), suggesting that tabarru’ could be based on a fee (ujrah). In contrast, other contracts could be structured around profit and loss-sharing investment agreements.
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spelling doaj-art-d1e3d47b61c3474ab1cd0afcc283b5b02025-02-11T08:39:56ZindUniversity of LampungFiat Justisia1978-51862477-62382025-02-0118442544010.25041/fiatjustisia.v18no4.36352365Ethical Contracts vs. Commercial Realities in Indonesian Sharia InsuranceIstianah Zainal Asyiqin0Universitas Muhammadiyah YogyakartaThis article examined legal issues within Indonesia's Sharia insurance industry, focusing on implementing dual contracts combining tabarru’ (voluntary) and tijarah (business) agreements. The qualitative study used secondary data and a taxonomic technique to identify legal challenges. Ideally, the contract structure should separate the management of these two agreements, with tabarru’ as the primary contract and tijarah as supplementary. However, the findings revealed that Indonesia's takaful industry prioritized the supplementary tijarah contract over the primary tabarru’. This issue resulted in inadequate separation of tabarru’ and tijarah funds, leading to the mixing of returns from both sectors. This practice contradicted the fatwas issued by the National Sharia Council-The Indonesian Ulama Council (DSN-MUI) regarding Islamic insurance.Additionally, the article identifies ambiguities within some DSN-MUI guidelines. To address these issues, the article proposed an alternative contract scheme from the perspective of fiqh al-mu'amalah (Islamic economic law), suggesting that tabarru’ could be based on a fee (ujrah). In contrast, other contracts could be structured around profit and loss-sharing investment agreements.https://jurnal.fh.unila.ac.id/index.php/fiat/article/view/3635aqdsyari’ah insurancetabarrutijarahfatwa of dsn-muisharia economic law
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tijarah
fatwa of dsn-mui
sharia economic law
title Ethical Contracts vs. Commercial Realities in Indonesian Sharia Insurance
title_full Ethical Contracts vs. Commercial Realities in Indonesian Sharia Insurance
title_fullStr Ethical Contracts vs. Commercial Realities in Indonesian Sharia Insurance
title_full_unstemmed Ethical Contracts vs. Commercial Realities in Indonesian Sharia Insurance
title_short Ethical Contracts vs. Commercial Realities in Indonesian Sharia Insurance
title_sort ethical contracts vs commercial realities in indonesian sharia insurance
topic aqd
syari’ah insurance
tabarru
tijarah
fatwa of dsn-mui
sharia economic law
url https://jurnal.fh.unila.ac.id/index.php/fiat/article/view/3635
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