2023, Indonesia Lead the World Islamic Finance Industry

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The development of Islamic financial industry in Indonesia is predicted to continue to grow in 2012. In fact, Indonesia is predicted to lead the world's Islamic financial industry in 2023 with total assets of 1.597 trillion U.S. dollars.

In 2023, the world's Islamic financial industry is predicted to have assets of up to 8.6 trillion U.S. dollars. Indonesia Islamic finance industry's assets will be in Pakistan which has assets of over 1.388 trillion U.S. dollars. Third world Islamic finance industry will be held in Bangladesh with total assets of 1.154 trillion U.S. dollars. The predictions presented in the Islamic Finance Intelligence Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday (15/11).

Indonesia Islamic financial industry would defeat the Islamic countries and the Middle East. Egyptian Islamic financial industry assets in 2023 only about 624 billion U.S. dollars, followed by Turkey with assets of 581 billion U.S. dollars. Other Islamic countries, Iran, will have assets of Islamic financial industry for 581 billion, followed by Sudan (204 billion U.S. dollars), and Saudi Arabia (198 billion U.S. dollars).

Countries that have Islamic finance industry will be missed from Indonesia such as the UK, Yemen, Syria, and the Union Arab Emirate (UAE). England will have assets of Islamic financial industry for 190 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. The number is followed by Yemen (187 billion U.S. dollars), Syria (163 billion U.S. dollars) and UAE (94 billion U.S. dollars). Malaysia, which currently has assets of Islamic financial industry will be far the largest in Asia behind Indonesia, namely to 133 billion dollars in 2023.

According to Islamic economists, Adiwarman Anwar Karim, Indonesia has the potential to be the center of the world economy. The potential was backed by two major factors namely population size and creativity. "The potential is hampered by its nature difficult market driven," he said, Wednesday (16/11).

There are four types of industries that will flourish in Indonesia in the future, namely the Muslim fashion industry, halal food, the media with the content of Islam, and Islamic finance. Islamic finance has the potential to grow significantly in the future despite its current market share is still less than 4 percent. Indonesia Islamic bank customers now have 10 million, plus 3.5 million Takaful.

"With a total of 13.5 million that was equal to the total population of Muslims in Malaysia and the next year Indonesia Islamic financial customers equals the number of citizens of Saudi Arabia," he said.