Investigating Meat Milling Business in Yogyakarta: a Maqâshid al-Syarî‘ah Perspectives

Abstract

Investigating Meat Milling Business in Yogyakarta: A Maqâshid al-Syarî‘ah Perspectives. This article aims to investigate the meat milling business process in the light of maqâshid al-syarî‘ah perspectives. The ttopic arises due to some past cases related to the mixed process of meat milling of lawful and unlawful meat in the industry, while the demand on the meat milling business is pretty high according to the BAPPENAS Yogyakarta data. Lacking on supervision has threatened consumer protection and deviates from the sharia injunctions. Maqâshid al-syarî‘ah being consider as the basis of sharia compliances that serves to understand the purposes of sharia laws in the daily life in the form of prohibitions and injunctions. Qualitative method and content analysis is conducted to interpret 7 meats milling local shop owner responds regards the manifestation of maqâshid al-syarî‘ah in their business. It can be concluded that the implementation of maqâshid al-syarî‘ah of meat milling business in Yogyakarta on the level of input, process and output has been implemented accordingly. Although there are several cases of respondent that did not abide by the Islamic laws, but most of the businessman are. Halal logistic and supply chain is needed to become the insurance party of the legal aspect of business and also as the milestone of expanding the local meat milling to compete with the bigger competitor such as supermarket.

Halal food based on maqâshid al-syarî’ah perspective

“…Maqâshid al-syarî'ah becomes an important part of life and it is not only useful for financial purposes but also the human's entire life, including the preservation of the soul. There is a consequence for maslahah or well-being cumulatively if we ignore maqâshid al-syarî'ah on consuming halal food (Muttaqin & Ferdaus, 2017).…”

“…Consumer protection is one of the important issues in food safety assurance. It is related to the maqâshid al-syarî'ah dimension called preservation of lineage (Muttaqin & Ferdaus, 2017). If people do not consume halal food and endanger their life, it will affect their posterity and family.…”

“…If people do not consume halal food and endanger their life, it will affect their posterity and family. Based on research conducted by (Muttaqin & Ferdaus, 2017), the doctor also said that nonhalal food has a bad impact on the body for long-term consumption, but even though there is no harmful impact on health, there is no tolerance for nonhalal food for Muslims, because it is Allah's command. (Waharjani, 2015) also explained that food that comes into our bodies has a big impact on human growth and health.…”

“…Another impact of becoming stingy is in social life it will create social jealousy and result in the resentment or even jealousy of those who are deprived. Based on a study (Muttaqin & Ferdaus, 2017), most meat milling businessman pays their zakat to improve their wealth both materially and spiritually.…”

“…Several studies have been conducted on halal food, but more focused on halal certification (Ab Talib, 2017;Ab Talib et al, 2016;Henderson, 2016), the intention towards halal food (Ali, 2016;Bashir et al, 2019;Mutmainah, 2018;Nurhasanah & Hariyani, 2018;Pradana et al, 2020;Zakaria et al, 2018), (Zakaria et al, 2018) factors using halal food (Sherwani et al, 2018;Vanany et al, 2020). Some previous studies relate to maqâshid al-syarî'ah also have been conducted (Abdullah & Azam, 2020;Aulia, 2018;Aziz et al, 2020;Hasan, 2019;Muttaqin & Ferdaus, 2017;Othman et al, 2018;Sulistiani, 2019;Usman, 2019;Zaimsyah & Herianingrum, 2019;Zaprulkhan, 2018) (Aulia, 2018) conducted a review of the maqâshid al-syarî'ah on the presentation of food decorated with gold powder. The results showed that the food decorated with gold powder used edible gold which had a food-grade label.…”