A dynamic passive thermoregulation fabric using metallic microparticles

Maintaining comfort using photonic thermal management textiles has a large potential to decrease the energy cost for heating and cooling in residential and office buildings. We propose a thermoregulating fabric...

Model Pengelolaan Zakat Saham dan Investasi di Baznas (Bazis) Provinsi DKI Jakarta

Indonesia is one of the most populous Muslim countries, so it has a very large potential for zakat. The types of zakat in Indonesia are zakat fitrah and zakat maal, over time zakat maal has developed what is known as contemporary zakat in the form of professional zakat, stock zakat, investment zakat, deposit zakat and the like. Each type of zakat collected is expected to have the potential to improve the economy and prosper the people. Zakat shares in Indonesia have the distribution of funds from companies or individuals based on the results of company profits and share profits where this profit is given to mustahik. So from this research on the management of stock and investment zakat, the authors found that related problems are still found to be low awareness of shareholders and investors to pay their zakat. This study aims to explain the management model of stock and investment zakat, and analyze the stock and investment zakat program in Baznas DKI Jakarta Province. The method used is a qualitative descriptive approach, the data sources used are through previous research, books, and the results of interviews with resource persons who understand zakat shares and investments. The results obtained by Baznas DKI Jakarta Province in managing stock and investment zakat using the theory of Yusuf Qardhawi and in an effort to increase muzakki or investors of Baznas DKI Jakarta Province. AbstrakIndonesia merupakan salah satu negara berpenduduk muslim terbesar, sehingga memiliki potensi zakat yang sangat besar. Jenis-jenis zakat yang ada di Indonesia adalah zakat fitrah dan zakat maal, seiring berjalannya waktu zakat maal telah berkembang yang dikenal dengan istilah zakat kontemporer berupa zakat profesi, zakat saham, zakat investasi, zakat deposito dan sejenisnya. Setiap jenis zakat yang terkumpul diharapkan memiliki potensi untuk meningkatkan perekonomian dan mensejahterakan umat. Zakat saham di Indonesia memiliki pembagian dana dari perusahaan atau perorangan berdasarkan hasil keuntungan perusahaan dan keuntungan bagi hasil dimana keuntungan ini diberikan kepada mustahik. Maka dari penelitian tentang pengelolaan zakat saham dan investasi ini, penulis menemukan permasalahan terkait masih rendahnya kesadaran pemegang saham dan investor untuk membayar zakatnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan model pengelolaan zakat saham dan investasi, serta menganalisis program zakat saham dan investasi di Baznas Provinsi DKI Jakarta. Metode yang digunakan adalah pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif, sumber data yang digunakan adalah melalui penelitian terdahulu, buku, dan hasil wawancara dengan nara sumber yang memahami zakat saham dan investasi. Hasil yang diperoleh Baznas Provinsi DKI Jakarta dalam mengelola zakat saham dan investasi menggunakan teori Yusuf Qardhawi dan dalam upaya meningkatkan muzakki atau investor Baznas Provinsi DKI Jakarta.

Circular Approaches in Small-Scale Food Production

Globally, food production is one of the main water and energy consumers. Having in view the growing population on global scale, a higher efficiency of food production is needed. Circular approaches offer a large potential to enhance the efficiency of food production and have a long tradition in the food production process of mankind. However, industrial farming has interdicted traditional cycle-closed farming approaches leading to a variety of environmental challenges. The contribution illustrates the basics of traditional gardening and farming approaches and describes how their characteristics are adapted in innovative modern farming systems like aquaponic, permaculture, urban farming, as well as recovered traditional farming systems. The approach to combine traditional farming methods with modern ones will provide multiple benefits in the future to ensure food security. There is to be underlined that such a strategy holds a substantial potential of circular flux management in small scale food production. This potential could be transposed to a larger scale also, particularly in terms of agroforestry and integrated plant and animal husbandry or integrated agriculture and aquaculture. In this way, small-scale food production holds a large potential for the future implementation of the water-energy-food security nexus.

Cash Waqf Linked Sukuk: Potential and Challenges

Waqf as an instrument of Islamic economics in the modern era as it is today. Indonesia with the most Muslims in the world has a very large potential for waqf, with a nominal potential of approximately Rp. 2,000 Trillion and it would be a shame if that great potential could not be optimized as well as possible. Then CWLS is expected as an alternative instrument for optimizing the potential of waqf and examining the obstacles that will be faced . The purpose of this research is Cash Waqf Linked Sukuk as an instrument for optimizing the potential of waqf in Indonesia. CWLS is a productive cash waqf which is expected to improve the national economy. The research method used is library research where by reviewing all articles, books, and writings of experts to strengthen CWLS, you can maximize the potential of waqf in Indonesia. The results obtained are that CWLS is able to be an alternative for optimizing the potential of waqf, then the obstacles faced are the level of literacy as community insight in doing waqf and the level of religiosity of the community in doing waqf.

Is This Time Different?

Chapter 1 introduces the debate over whether “this time is different”—whether contemporary innovations in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics are more likely than past rounds of technological innovations to yield net job destruction—and the parallel debate over whether we should welcome or worry about that future. It begins with a tour of some of the innovations that are allowing algorithms and robots to replace human workers at a range of tasks, and explains why the recent COVID-19 crisis is accelerating automation along several vectors. The chapter previews the book’s overall claims that a future of less work is foreseeable, even likely, if not inevitable; that it holds both perils and promise for ordinary workers and the society as a whole; and that it should be met with policy responses that can mitigate the losses and fairly distribute the large potential gains from a more automated economy.