INDONESIA - ARTICLES - Profit sharing scheme for micro entrepreneur: an ideas sharing (Edy Tri Sujarwadi)

ekonomisyariah.org - Profit sharing financing is one of Islamic financing schemes.  This scheme should be a main scheme in Islamic financing sector, because it represents fairness business scheme, which each partner will share both profit and loss.  But the reality is different.  Most of Islamic financing scheme in Indonesia is not profit sharing (mudharabah/musyarakah)2, but mark up financing (murabahah).  (source)

INDONESIA - ARTICLES - Forum Riset Presentation : Islamic finance ; a crticial appraisal and proposals for the 2nd generation

ekonomisyariah.org - This article presented in the Research Forum of Bank Indonesia Sharia Banking held on 29 to 30 September 2011 in North Sumatra IAIN. Among others, this article describes an overview of Islamic products.  (download)

INDONESIA - CAPITAL MARKETS - SBI Syariah Limited, BI Push SBSN

EKONOMISYARIAH.ORG - JAKARTA - Bank Indonesia (BI) admitted pushing Sharia State Securities (SBSN) in lieu of Certificates of Bank Indonesia Sharia (SBIS). SBIS limitations as a means of liquidity management of Islamic banking because it did not have underlying assets that make these instruments can not be traded in the secondary market.

According to Associate Economic Analyst, Directorate of Monetary Management BI, Erwin Gunawan Hutapea, SBSN use can be more useful to finance the state budget revenues and expenditures (state budget). "Meanwhile, if only in the SBIS, it will just be a floating fund (idle) and not distributed," he said. (source)