Faculty of Economics and Business Students' Understanding of Sharia Financial Technology , one of the topics in the RnP AcSES FEB UNAIR Field Research Program


The development of Sharia Financial Technology at this time is quite rapid along with the development of Islamic economics in Indonesia. For this reason, the Field Research Program team took the topic of how FEB students understand Sharia Financial Technology. PPL itself is a field research activity program regarding Sharia Economics. This research program collaborates with all Student Associations of the Faculty of Economics and Business, namely the Development Economics Student Association, Accounting Student Association, Management Student Association, and the Islamic Economics Student Association itself. This activity will be carried out in 2 stages. The sampling is carried out offline. Then the results of this activity will be published via graphic info.

Implementation of the Field Research Program from 1 May 2018 to 30 August 2018, starting from the stage of formulating questionnaire content, creating Google Drive and publications, distributing questionnaires both offline and online, data management then creating infographics and finally publication. The results of this research program will be made into a work in written form which can later be read by anyone who wants to access it, but in the short term it will be made into an infographic so that readers are interested in seeing the results of PPL, while in the long term it will be made into a written work which will be recorded in a book. at the end of management.

The Field Research Program was chaired by Rizqatus Sholehah (Development Economics 2016) with a team including Fready Wijaya (Development Economics 2017), Irma Yanti (Development Economics 2017), Purbo Budi Aji Raharjo (Management 2017). As the process of distributing the questionnaires progressed, the teams worked together with several groups in their classes to help distribute the questionnaires and collect them again.

Field Research Program targeting FEB students from various majors ranging from Development Economics, Accounting, Management and Islamic Economics. The minimum student target is 200 students. From the results of distributing questionnaires both offline and online, the most sources were students from class 2016 with a percentage of 59%, class 15 with a percentage of 18%, class 17 with a percentage of 23%. The majority of students know what Financial Technology is with the answer being that Fintech is technology-based financial services, the most widely known Fintech services are E-money and peer to peer lending. Even though the majority of FEB students know about Fintech, this is in contrast to Sharia Fintech where only 23% of students know about it from 200 sources. Known Sharia Fintechs include Amartha, E-Banking Sharia, and Investree. With the conclusion that Sharia Financial Technology needs to be developed because of its impact which can bring the Indonesian economy more advanced.