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Shirkah Journal of Economics and Business (Shirkah) is a peer-reviewed journal published tri-annually (January-April, May-August and September-December) by Faculty of Islamic Economics and Business, Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN/State Institute for Islamic Studies) Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. The main objective of Shirkah is to offer an academic space of exchange ideas and initiate the increase number of qualified article produced by postgraduate students, practitioners and academicians.

Formerly, first published in 2007, Shirkah was initially published as Syirkah: Jurnal Ekonomi dan Bisnis Islam, a bi-annual journal on Islamic economics and business. Since 2016, celebrating ASEAN economic community, the journal tranforms its name to Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business. Shirkah has dedicated to be an excellent journal by publishing a innovative articles on economics and business.    

Shirkah openly invites manuscripts with various topics relating to economic and business challenge in broader sense, not only include industrial statistical economic but cultural, social and political ones also. The topics that uncovers the development of Islamic economic will be more appreciated in this emerging journal. Since July 2018, Shirkah has been accredited on the grade of Sinta 2 by DGHE (Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education, Republic of Indonesia).

Your submission has been moved to the archive, although no confirmation email was received.

We occasionally experience issues with our email client, which may prevent the journal system from sending notifications to authors. If the status of your submission has changed from Active to Archived, it indicates that an initial review by the Editorial Board has been completed, and unfortunately, your manuscript has been rejected for not meeting one or more of our requirements:

  • Non-compliance with Author Guidelines or a high similarity index (over 25%).
  • Lack of scientific merit or insufficient contribution to research.
  • Incompatibility with the journal’s scope and readership.
  • Insufficient diversity in authorship or research area.
  • Content issues, such as language errors, inadequate introduction, lack of a research gap or research questions, unclear aims, a literature review that does not thoroughly explore the topic, unsound methodology, poorly addressed results, lack of discussion, outdated references, or references not following APA 7th style.
  • Significant AI-generated content (exceeding 50%).
  • Prioritization of research articles; review articles are accepted by invitation only.

Due to the high volume of submissions, we are unable to provide additional details regarding this decision. We hope this outcome does not discourage you from submitting other relevant work to Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business. Please note that rejected manuscripts cannot be resubmitted to this journal, and any such attempts will be disregarded. We encourage you to consider submitting your work to another journal.


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As of 2024, a total of 96 submissions have been recorded in the journal's website. We thank authors for their enthusiams to publish with us. All submissions will be evaluated, and are further sent to the review process. Decision will be made on 30 August 2024, either your submissions are proceeded to the review process or not. Hence, based on some considerations (human & financial resources), We decide to provide more space of publication by adding the number of articles in each edition (9 articles starting from 2024, past edition: 7 articles, so we add 2 articles in each edition), to make optimum dissemination of the best research results in economics and business field worldwide. By this, SHIRKAH takes a crucial role in providing valuable insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers around the world. We thank your valuable contribution to this journal. 
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Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business
Volume 6, Number 1 (2021) - Published by Faculty of Islamic Economics and Business IAIN Surakarta in collaboration with Indonesian Association of Islamic Economists.

This issue has been available online since 9th March 2021 for the regular issue of April 2021. All articles in this issue (8 original research and review articles) were authored/co-authored by 18 authors from 4 different countries (Indonesia, Oman, Brunei Darussalam, and Malaysia).

Current Issue Vol 6, No.1 (2021)
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Dear prospective authors,

To adjust to the international-standard article publication and layout, Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business has made minor changes with regards to the journal template. Therefore, starting from publication in the year of 2021, we will use the new template. Please carefully observe the following important links before you make a submission:

Author guideline: http://shirkah.or.id/new-ojs/index.php/home/pages/view/Author%20Guideline

Article template:http://shirkah.or.id/new-ojs/index.php/home/pages/view/Article%20Template

Best regards,

On behalf of the editorial team


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Dear respective authors,

Here is to let you know that Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business is receiving so many article submissions. Therefore, we do apologize that we cannot provide a fast review process to all submissions in the months of February and March 2021. We commit to give you the results of reviews within the end of April in maximum time. We express gratitudes for selecting Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business as your dissemination platform. 

Thanks and regards,


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Dear contributors,

Based on the decree Number 200/M/KPT/2020 of Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education (KemenristekDikti) of the Republic of Indonesia, dated December 23, 2020, Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business still remains in SINTA 2 as a scientific journal with excellent management and published contents. We'd like to express gratitude and many thanks to authors, editors, reviewers, readers, and other contributors for the outstanding contribution to Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business.

On behalf of the editorial team.

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Here is to inform you that Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business has already published the current issue of Volume 5 number 3. 6 articles with high quality of writings and interesting discussion are at your fingertips. Enjoy reading. Please visit http://shirkah.or.id/new-ojs/index.php/home/issue/view/19
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As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we understand that many authors and peer reviewers will be making adjustments to their professional and personal lives. As a result, they may have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer-review process. Please let the journal editorial office know if you need additional time. For prospective authors, please contact the journal editor via email (shirkahiainsurakarta@gmail.com) if there are issues related to your submission to Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business. In this review process, we intend to be flexible.
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Like all major scientific journals, the success of Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business depends on a dedicated team who are able to review manuscripts that are submitted by scientists from around the world fairly and in a timely manner. Ultimately, the journal’s team is responsible for selecting manuscripts that contain the most original, most significant, and most impactful scientific findings for publication in Shirkah journal. Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business would like to invite qualified scientists to contact the journal's Editor-in-Chief about becoming a reviewer for Shirkah journal.

If you are interested in becoming a reviewer for Shirkah journal, please send us an e-mail<shirkahiainsurakarta@gmail.com>and include a brief description of your background, your professional accomplishments, and your experience as a reviewer. We look forward to hearing from interested parties and hope to continue to enhance the quality and timeliness of Shirkah's review process.

Best Regards,


Editorial Team


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Dear Shirkah Contributors,

We would like to inform that Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business improves the paper performance by providing a new published format version starting from Volume 5 Issue 1 April 2020. For submission, the authors are required to see author guidelines and use the available template in OJS.


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Shirkah: Journal of Economics and Business welcomes research-based papers touching the ground of Sharia finance, Halal matters, Islamic financial institutions, Sacrificial economics, Muslim lifestyle identities, Creative economics, Entrepreneurship, Financial technology, and related disciplines.

Shirkah has been indexed on international academic publication databases, e.g.: DOAJ, Crossref, Google Scholar, Sinta 2, Moraref, ISJD, DRJI, and so on.

Shirkah Editorial Board invites you to submit your manuscripts for the upcoming edition of the journal.

Paper submission schedule:

Volume 5 No 1 January-April 2020, submission due: February 20, 2020

Volume 5 No 2 May-August 2020, submission due: June 30, 2020

Volume 5 No 3 September-December 2020, submission due: October 30, 2020


Thanks, and we are looking forward to your contribution.

Kind regards,

Shirkah Editorial Team

Email: shirkahiainsurakarta@gmail.com



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Apologize 2017-03-21

We apologize for late setting-up Ichwan Sidik as primary author of an article entitled Zakat and Islamic Corporate Sosial Responsibility
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