The Influence of Islamic Banks and Sovereign Retail Sukuk on Economic Growth in Indonesia

This study aims to examine the short-term and long-term effects of Islamic banking financing and the development of sovereign Retail Sukuk (SR) on Indonesia's economic growth during the period 2009: Q1 to 2019: Q3. Islamic banking and Sukuk have the same essential role, namely in terms of financing or raising funds. Outstanding SR is used as an indicator of SR’s development in seeing its impact on Indonesia's economic growth. Through Dickey Fuller-Generalized Least Square (DF-GLS) analysis, Lag-Length Test, Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL), Cointegration Bound Testing, this study examines the effect of Islamic banking financing and the development of SR on economic growth. Total Sharia Bank financing and outstanding SR do not have long-term cointegration with Indonesia's economic growth. Meanwhile, in the short term, Indonesia's GDP is influenced positively by total Islamic Bank financing (TFIN) at lag 3 and negatively by the outstanding SR at lag 3 and 4. Researchers only examined the Islamic banking sector, specifically highlighting financing in Islamic banking and SR’s development through nominal outstanding on a quarterly scale. The limitations of the variables studied are becoming the limitations of this study. The government as a policymaker have to provide a support through cooperation between institutions and Medium and Small Enterprises (MSMEs) with Islamic banks in collecting and channeling financing, education, and outreach to the public. Consequently, the deepest layers need to be improved to make SR an individual investment instrument that can support Indonesia's economic growth. The research that examined SR with quantitative methods is still limited. Therefore, this study is expected to contribute to increasing liabilities in Islamic Finance, particularly in Retail Sukuk.