Vice President Encourages Islamic Boarding Schools To Optimize Sharia Economics

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin/PHOTO BETWEEN HO BPMI SETWAPRES

BANGKALAN - Vice President (Vice President) Ma'ruf Amin encourages regions and pesantren to optimize sharia-based economic development as an effort to advance the community's economy.

"We continue to carry out the formation of the sharia economy, we are actively active halal products. Let all regions clean up, because apart from growing products, we will also open markets," said the Vice President, on the sidelines of a visit to the Al-Anwar Islamic Boarding School, Patereman Village, Modung District, Bangkalan, East Java, reported by ANTARA, Thursday, August 31.

According to the Vice President, in opening the market for halal products, the government has carried out, such as in the Middle East which has already entered into a trade agreement.

"This is our step to become a center for trading in halal products, from the financial sector we have started, BSI has opened in Dubai, it will soon open in Saudi Arabia," the Vice President explained.

The caretaker of the Al-AnwarKH Islamic Boarding School, Muchlis Muhsin, said that his institution is ready to carry out the Vice President's encouragement in trying to optimize the sharia economy.

"We have started establishing sharia pawnshops, we are very ready for sharia-based economic development as one of the halal products," he said.

This readiness, according to Kiai Muchlis, has been around for a long time, one of which is by establishing a sharia economic college in the pesantren he takes care of.

"We encourage students and alumni not only to focus on reading da'wah books such as lectures, but what we want them to be able to move the sharia-based economy in the community," he also said.