Saturday, March 22, 2014

MILF: Academe to hold Islamic Finance Seminar to help craft the Bangsamoro Basic Law

Posted to the MILF Website (Mar 19): Academe to hold Islamic Finance Seminar to help craft the Bangsamoro Basic Law



An Ateneo de Davao-based institute will hold the Bangsamoro Islamic Finance Seminar that will serve as a venue for concerned stakeholders to help in the crafting of Bangsamoro Basic Law.
  
Al Qalam Institute (AQI) for Islamic Identities and Dialogue in Southeast Asia will host the activity on March 25-27, 2014 at El Bajada Hotel in Davao City.

Delegates are coming from microfinance organizations, AQI, Peace and Equity Foundation and their partners will be the participants. Two international experts on Islamic finance were invited. 

Mr. Priyonggo Suseno from Universitas Islam Indonesia will discuss the Principles of Islamic Finance and Updates on the Halal Economy.

Kartiko Wibowo, Binama Koperasi Syariah, also from Indonesia, will tackle Baitul Maal Wa Tamwil Practices and Workable Systems in the Community Level.

Atty. Jamil Matalam will provide input on the roles of People’s Organizations and Civil Society Organizations and Challenges in Islamic Finance.

The participants will also undergo series of workshop and the outputs will be presented to the speakers to get their feedback.

The activity is a follow through undertaking after the study tour of microfinance institutions representatives in Jakarta who learned the practice Islamic finance in Indonesia last November which was spearheaded by AQI and supported by PEF.

AQI Director Mussolini S. Lidasan said the outputs of the seminar will be forwarded to the crafters of the Bangsamoro Basic Law, the Bangsamoro Transition Commission.

For more than a year already, AQI and PEF have been in the forefront in studying and advocating Halal microfinance with strong belief that it will help alleviate the Bangsamoro people from poverty.

The BTC has been conducting consultations with various stakeholders in Mindanao to gather ideas and recommendations for the inclusive crafting the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL).

The law crafters, which targets to submit the BBL to Congress by the end of March, look forward for the establishment of Shariah compliant finance system in the Bangsamoro core territory and other Muslims communities in the country.
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