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Deconstructing Saudi Arabia’S Foreign Aid Motives To Yemen, Ghita Fadhila Andrini, Taufik Hidayat, Dina Yulianti

Global: Jurnal Politik Internasional

This research assesses the motives of Saudi Arabia’s aid to Yemen. Saudi Arabia has been the most significant donor to the country whilst threatening humanitarian conditions in Yemen through its military intervention. Thus, this research aims to unveil the Kingdom’s reasons to provide foreign aid to Yemen whilst doing the military intervention. This research uses the seven foreign aid frames according to Veen (2011) to analyse possible interest implied in the Kingdom’s foreign aid delivery to Yemen. The method used in this research is a literature review by analysing the Kingdom’s official statements published on the government's official websites and …

U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Unesco After Acceptance Of Palestinian Membership For The Period 2012-2017, Yon Machmudi, Qothrunnada Quraissyn Qudsi Ardifansyia

Journal of Strategic and Global Studies

The United States is one of the countries that established Palestine as a state. The struggle for Palestine to get full membership status in the United Nations (UN) also often gets a veto from the United States. The United States rejects Palestine at UNESCO because according to America, membership status as a country cannot determine the decision of the UN Security Council first. The research method used in this research is descriptive research method, and the writer will use secondary data. This paper examines the United States' policy towards UNESCO after the membership of Palestine for the 2012-2017 period. The …

Media Misrepresentation Predisposing Iranian Social Divide, Adelia Rachman

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought Iran to be transformed into a new revolutionary theocratic republic. This is in line with the raison d’être of the Iranian constitution, realizing the life of the nation and state based on the noble and universal values of Islam. Meanwhile, the existence of power competition and conflicting conceptions of authority have been reflected in its political constellation. Islam in the realm of this state is not only understood as a religious institution but also a concept of political spirituality. The hijab policy, for example, has become part of Iranian culture ever since and became …

The Mystery Of The Location Of The City Of Iram, The Atlantis Of Arabia, Mohammad Izdiyan Muttaqin, Ahmad Dardiri Dardiri

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

This study aims to discuss the characteristics of the Land of the 'Ad whose country is usually called the Land of Iram, and opinions about the location of its existence. This research is a library study that takes information from various sources. The author reached the conclusion that there are 4 characteristics of the Land of the 'Ad mentioned in the Qur'an, among them are: 1) there is a desert in it, 2) it has high buildings and pillars, 3) the buildings are visible and can be seen by people around them, 4) there is spring in it. The author …

Tindak Tutur Ilokusi Teks Deklarasi Kemerdekaan Palestina, Salsabila Safitri, Wiwin Triwinarti

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

This study discusses the types and functions of illocutionary speech acts contained in the text of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence. The text of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence was written by a Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish and then read by the First President of Palestine Yasser Arafat in Algeria on November 15, 1988. This research was analyzed using qualitative descriptive methods and Searle's (1979) speech act theory. In the text of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, the researcher found 14 utterances containing illocutionary speech acts with different functions. There are 4 assertive utterances with the function of stating, 3 …

From Abdulhamid Ii Until Erdoğan: Pan-Islamism Movement In Indonesia And Turkey, Siti Rohmah Soekarba, Frial Ramadhan Supratman

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

This paper investigates the relationship between Indonesia and Turkey from nineteenth century until twentieth first century, especially in the are of Erdogan (2002- today) in the framework of Pan-Islamism approach. Pan-Islamism term has been explored by scientists in the Western or non-Western world. Mostly, scientists consider that Pan-Islamism is the act of radical in order to to West domination in Muslim countries. In this paper author argues that Pan-Islamism is not a conservative ideology to expel West domination, but the approach adopted by Muslims in order to adapt with global challenge since nineteenth century. This paper is written from historical …

Strengthening Cybersecurity Of The United Arab Emirates After The Establishment Of Diplomatic Relations With Israel, Afini Nurdina Utami, M. Hamdan Basyar

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

The United Arab Emirates established diplomatic relations with Israel in September 2020. This decision is in line with the United Arab Emirates' national commitment to enhance the development of the country's potential. The two countries agreed to enhance cooperation in the fields of cyber and technology. The regional threat posed by Iran is one of the factors driving cooperation between the two countries in the field of cybersecurity. This study aims to answer the background of the two countries’ increasing cooperation in the field of cybersecurity and how to strengthen cybersecurity as one of the objectives of cooperation after the …

Kuwait's Leadership In Mediation Of The Gave State Diplomic Conflict 2017-2019, Agung Qosym Yus, Mulawarman Hannase

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

The Gulf region in 2017 experienced a diplomatic crisis that was quite complicated so that it could be said as a regional conflict which was manifested in the form of a blockade and the closure of diplomatic relations between them. This crisis mainly involves Saudi and its allies to blockade Qatar in various ways. This conflict made Kuwait emerge as a mediator trying to restore the diplomatic situation in the Gulf region back to normal. By using literature studies and qualitative research methods in analyzing the data, it can be seen that Kuwait succeeded in neutralizing and slowly returning to …

The Evolution Of Money To Cryptocurrency: Are They Eligible To Be Islamic Digital Money, Patria Yunita

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

The cryptocurrency was a very popular issue in recent years. There was a debate among scientists regarding the prohibition of cryptocurrencies as a medium of exchange. Some Islamic institutions use cryptocurrencies and blockchain platforms in the financial transaction. This study analyzes the arguments of classical and modern Muslim scientists regarding the evolution of money to become modern Islamic digital money in the form of cryptocurrency. We used ARCH GARCH to predict the volatility of cryptocurrencies. Our samples are Bitcoin, Ethereum, IDR Token, and Tether USD Token. IDRT and USDT are stablecoins. Bitcoin and Ethereum are …

Arah Kebijakan Militer Arab Saudi Di Bawah Komando Mohammed Bin Salman (Mbs) Menghadapi Visi Saudi 2030, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Syaroni Rofii Mr.

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

The Saudi Arabia's Grand Vision 2030 which has been launched since 2016, but Saudi Arabia's involvement in the political arena in the Middle East has drained the finances of this rich country. Saudi Arabia actually wants to get out of the mud of conflict in the region and find a way to save face under de facto of the Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) leadership. The larger goal of Saudi Vision 2030 is more important than maintaining its regional hegemony under the shadow of the United States. MBS's policy of involving Saudi Arabia, which is supported by the United States …

The Polarization Of The Hamas Movement In Palestine And Its Influence On Indonesian Defense Issues: A Geopolitical And Military Overview, Ahmad Budiman, Mulawarman Hannase

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has implications for the birth of armed groups that continue to

be polarized within Palestine, such as the PLO, Hamas, Fatah, and others to the PNA.

However, one group that exists and has a strong resonance in the Islamic world is Hamas.

The resonance also reached Indonesia. This study will examine the polarization of Hamas and

its military activities which are considered to represent the interests of Palestinian Muslims.

As a result, this has a snowball effect by generating bigger and stronger support which

ultimately affects the issue of Indonesia's national defense., This study uses a qualitative …

Hubungan Islam Dan Negara Dalam Perspektif Pemikiran Sekuler Ali Abdurraziq, Nurwahidin Nurwahidin, Muhammad Miqdad, Jamaluddin Djunaid

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

Tulisan ini memberikan pengetahuan serta wawasan mengenai konsep islam dan perbedaan antara hukum agama dan hukum Negara menurut berbagai pendapat para ahli. Metode untuk artikel ini mengunakan Jenis kepustakaan atau library research. Jenis data dari metode ini yang didapatkan dari kumpulan data atau penulisan ilmiah yang memiliki tujuan untuk menyelesaikan suatu permasalahan yang terjadi melalui penelitian yang kritis dan mendalam terhadap data kepustakaa yang relevan. Data berasal dari sumber-sumber terkait penelitian lainnya. Tulisan ini menggunakan pendekatan teks untuk mengetahui bagaimana model pemikiran politik yang dimiliki oleh Ali Abdurraziq. Selain itu juga digunakan pendekatan sosiologis untuk melihat sejauh mana orisinalitas pemikiran …

Devide Et Impera: The United Arab Emirates’ Strategic Policy In Yemen, Riskiansyah Ramadhan, Syaiful Rohman, Imam Khomaeni Hayatullah

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) may have withdrawn its troops from Yemen, but its influence remains substantial and significant. From the first stage of the war, Saudi Arabia focused on the north of Yemen, while the UAE actively engaged in the north's south and coastal areas. Not only trains fighters, but the UAE also provides them with financial and political support. This is a descriptive-analytical article, using qualitative methods with data and works of literature, collected various books, journals, and online resources related to the topic. Furthermore, the author uses the "devide et impera" theory to elaborate, examine, and investigate …

Peran Dan Kepentingan North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) Dalam Konflik Perang Sipil Di Libya: Studi Kasus Periode Tahun 2011-2015, Harisuda Murdani, Yon Machmudi

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

The wave of the Arab Spring in the East The Civil War in Libya that occurred in the Middle East in 2011 was felt in Libya. The conflict that started as a demonstration ended in a civil war between the government and the Libyan opposition. NATO's humanitarian intervention is the mandate of the United Nations in the civil war in Libya uses the Responsibility to Protect rule to prevent the conflict from spreading. The presence of NATO as an international community is not only due to concern for Libya but there is an interest of oil resources in Libya. During …

Analisis Implementasi Kebijakan Tni Dalam Menghadapi Ideologi Khilafah, Toufik Akbar Siddik, Muhamad Syauqillah

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

Saat ini ancaman dalam bentuk radikalisme dan ideologi marak, bahkan gerilya. Isu masuknya paham radikal dan ideologi khilafah ke dalam tubuh TNI menjadi latar belakang analisis studi kasus dalam tugas akhir ini. Salah satu faktor yang memperkuat ketahanan prajurit TNI dalam menghadapi ideologi atau ideologi selain Pancasila adalah melalui kebijakan-kebijakan yang ada, sehingga tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bentuk-bentuk kebijakan di lingkungan TNI dan bagaimana implementasi kebijakan tersebut. Metodologi yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan sumber data menekankan pada wawancara dan studi dokumentasi. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat beberapa bentuk kebijakan dan implementasi yang baik di lapangan. Dari …

Islamic Banking Risk Assessment Process: A Case Study From Indonesia, Ita Sitasari

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

Indonesian Islamic banks are required have minimum capital in relation to bank’s risk profile rating that comes from the comprehensive risk assessment process. This is a qualitative study to observe how Islamic banks in Indonesia respond to the regulation, with the focus observation on the material risk identification process, risk indicators and determination of risk level. Based on discussion with some risk officers of Islamic banks indicates that the banks do not have specific process to identify material risks. They make assessment on risk types that have been defined by regulator. They also do not develop additional Islamic risk indicators …

Ancaman Keamanan Atas Investasi China Di Israel, Fadlur Rifki Afif, Yon Machmudi

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

The investment made by China in Israel is an effort to realize the Belt and Road Initiative initiated by President Xi Jinping poses a security threat to Israel. The focus of this research lies in the possibility of security threats to the various investments made by China in Israel, causing intervention from America. The method used in this paper is the Qualitative Method (Case Study). The results of this study indicate that the threat to Chinese investment in Israel is only a concern for Israel because China adheres to the 'Zero Enemy' policy.

Kuwait's Foreign Policy In The 2017 Gulf Crisis Between Saudi Arabia-Qatar, Moh. Iqbal Bulgini

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

The Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt embargoes against Qatar on June 5, 2017 have harmed the Qatari side and have broken the stability of the GCC. The involvement of Iran and Turkey on the Qatari side has made GCC fragments unavoidable. This crisis was actually triggered by Saudi Arabia's perception that Qatar had supported a terrorist movement that made Saudi Arabia invite all GCC countries to blockade Qatar, but among the Gulf countries, Kuwait is the only country that rejects the embargo and chooses neutral, even mediating the crisis.The reasons for Kuwait's rejection of the Saudi Arabian …

Hubungan Iran-Amerika Serikat Masa Pemerintahan Hassan Rouhani (Telaah Perjanjian Jcpoa), Ayu Maulida Alkholid, Firmanda Taufiq

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

Relations between Iran and the United States show fluctuating dynamics. The historical relationship and cooperation between the two countries represents how the process works. In fact, during the reign of Shah Reza Pahlavi, Iran-US relations looked good and established important cooperation in several sectors. The political constellation of Iran that continues to intertwine makes the US also respond and issue various policies, including the issue of the nuclear development program. The program during the reign of Hassan Rouhani was also one of the priority policies. Until, the JCPOA agreement was formed between Iran and the P5+1 group countries (US, UK, …

Profitabilitas Unit Usaha Syariah : Menuju Perbankan Syariah Yang Berkualitas, Myrna Anggarani

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

Abstract

This study examines and analyzes the effect of financing on the profitability of the Sharia Business Unit. The purpose of this study is to find out how the influence of financing by the Sharia Business Unit to the profitability of Islamic banking is proxied by the ratio Return on Assets (ROA), and Return On Equity (ROE). In addition, this study also analyzes the effect of financing to Non-Performing Financing (NPF).This study uses data in Sharia Banking Statistics from 2015 to 2019. There are 20 banks of Sharia Business Units. The data used in this study are secondary data which …

Konflik Minoritas Di Timur Tengah: Studi Kasus Konflik Etnis Kurdi, Bahy Chemy Ayatuddin Assri

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

This paper attempts to explain the roots of the Irak and Syria Kurdish ethnic conflict by using the analysis of the Broken Windows theory. The theory that was conceived by a criminologist named George L. Kelling and Cathrine M. Coles is trying to explain something small, if not addressed, it will cause something big. An epidemic will spread depending on the community and the environment. Just like what happened with the Kurds in the Middle East. This group received unfair treatment by the local regime, so the epidemic of freedom and having its own territory spread. A wave of resistance …

Identitas Dan Kebijakan Luar Negeri: Konstruksi Identitas Dalam Kebijakan Luar Negeri Tunisia Pasca Revolusi, Faizul Ibad, Abdul Muta’Ali

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

This study aims to examine the construction of identity in post-revolutionary Tunisian foreign policy. This research is interesting because Tunisia is the only country in the Middle East that has successfully passed the Arab Spring wave and formed a democratic government. While many other Arab countries did not make it through the wave of democratization, some of them even fell into protracted civil conflict. The polarization of Arab countries as a result of the Arab spring has caused fragmentation among other Arab countries. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates tried to block the revolution because it would threaten the …

Dampak Pandemi Terhadap Pariwisata Halal Jakarta, Nia Adriana, Nurwahidin Nurwahidin, Nurul Huda

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

In 2019 Indonesia had receiced an award with Malaysia as the best halal tourism destination in the world mastercard-cressent version. There are 10 provinces in Indonesia as priority as halal tourim region in Indonesia, one of them in Jakarta. Jakarta is the main entrance for international and domestic tourist. The Covid 19 virus pandemic in 2020 made the significant impact due this covid, one of sector has the get impact is Tourism sector. Jakarta has the highest number of positive cases (25% from total cases in Indonesi). It estimated that Covid will still happened the until 2021. This study has …

Factors Supporting Turkey’S Policy To Purchase Russian S-400 Anti-Air Strike Defense Units, Chendika Yonanda, Maryam Jamila, Zulkifli Harza, Ilman Syarif Masri

Journal of Strategic and Global Studies

Turkey is a member of the NATO military alliance since 1952, as a member of NATO, cooperation between Turkey and Russia invites counterparts from other NATO alliance countries. But even with criticism, Turkey continues purchasing S-400 from Russia . Therefore, this study aims to analyze the factors that support Turkey's policy on purchasing S-400.This research is a descriptive research through internet-based literature.Turkey's policy in purchasing S-400 analyzed using the concepts of Arms, Alliances and Security Tradeoffs proposed by James D. Morrow. James stated that there are three factors that influence the state to conduct arming; economic & military technological factors, …

Perwujudan Competitive Authoritarianism Di Turki Pada Perencanaan Dan Proses Referendum 2017, Abdul Hafizh Karim, M. Hamdan Basyar

Jurnal Politik

Perwujudan Competitive Authoritarianism di Turki pada Perencanaan dan Proses Referendum 2017 Artikel ini membahas competitive authoritarian regime di Turki pada kasus referendum 2017. Referendum 2017 merupakan inisiasi Erdoğan yang sejak 2011 mengatakan bahwa Turki akan semakin kuat dan stabil apabila menganut sistem presidensial. Erdoğan didukung oleh AKP (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi; Partai Keadilan dan Pembangunan) dan MHP (Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi; Partai Gerakan Nasionalis) di Parlemen, sedangkan HDP (Halkların Demokratik Partisi; Partai Demokratik Rakyat) dan CHP (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi; Partai Rakyat Republik) menolak karena poin-poin amendemen dapat menghasilkan otoritarianisme di Turki. Referendum diselenggarakan pada kondisi darurat negara setelah kudeta gagal pada …