The theme of the article is based on economic principles of
Islam. The purpose of research is to see economic development in the
perspective of the Islamic economy especially research aims to analyze
the effect of economic growth and unemployment in Indonesia period
1998-2017, the perspective of the Islamic economy. Economic
development is one of the strategies to achieve the goals aspired nation.
The goal is how poverty, unemployment, economic disparity and social
resolved so as to realize human welfare. But in fact, the construction of
which is expected to have an influence on society has not caused yet
siding with the people. Increased poverty and unemployment occur.
This type of research is an ex post facto. Technical documentation was
applied for searching the data from Statistics Central Board, Indonesia
Bank, BAPPENAS in Indonesia. Data analysis technique was Regression.
Data analysis shows that: there is negative influences towards economic
growth in the rate of Indonesia and unemployment in 1998-2018.
Economic development in Islam economic perspective focus to three
elements such as forbidden interest (ribā) as instrument financial,
optimization zakat and characteristics of an element of spiritual, moral,
and material, and activities tend to be multidimensional so that all
business submitted to balance a variety of factors and does not cause
inequality