Green Economy and The Reconstruction of Maslahah in Indonesian Islamic Economic Law
Keywords:
green economy, hifz al-bi'ah, Islamic economic law, maslahah, sustainable developmentAbstract
This study examines the position of green economy within the framework of Islamic economic law (Hukum Ekonomi Syariah) in Indonesia and proposes a reconstruction of the classical concept of maslahah (public benefit) to make it responsive to ecological sustainability. Using a normative-juridical (doctrinal) legal research method with conceptual, statutory, and comparative approaches, this study analyzes primary Islamic legal sources on maqasid al-shari'ah together with Indonesia's environmental and financial sustainability regulations. The findings show that the classical maslahah formulated by al-Ghazali and al-Shatibi, structured around five core objectives (hifz al-din, al-nafs, al-'aql, al-nasl, and al-mal), remains predominantly anthropocentric and structurally under-equipped to address the scale and irreversibility of the contemporary ecological crisis. This study proposes reconstructing maslahah by explicitly incorporating hifz al-bi'ah (preservation of the environment) as a cross-cutting sixth dimension of maqasid al-shari'ah rather than a derivative sub-value confined to hifz al-nafs. The reconstructed maslahah framework is found to be substantively convergent with the green economy principles embedded in Indonesia's environmental and financial regulatory architecture, thereby offering a value-based juridical foundation for sustainable development policy. This research contributes a maslahah-based analytical model capable of guiding the harmonization of Islamic economic law and green economy regulation in Indonesia.
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