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Main Page for Capitalism in Crisis; this page documents the Jakarta Visit, on Invitation of Indonesian State Bank

Talk at Bandung Merkez of Indonesian State Bank on: Interest and the Modern Economy. 16th Dec. Morning

Talk on 16th Dec. 2011, Afternoon: at University Bandung: Crisis in Capitalism: Causes and Consequences. Presentation is attached.

Talk on 17th Dec. 2011 Morning at Univ of Jakarta MBA Dept.: Crisis in Capitalism

Talk on 17th Dec. 2011 Afternoon at Hendri University

Talk on 18th Dec. Morning at Merkez in Jakarata

JAKARTA SLIDES: to be developed into a paper/talk. PURSUIT OF WEALTH (legitimization of) is the key cause of the Crisis in Capitalism. For a lecture on Legitimization of Pursuit of Wealth, see my lectures on Islamic Economics.l

Ramadhan karim and I hope you are fine.

Following our last communication I would like to share that we actually have 2 times Islamic banking research forum (FRPS) this year which are:

1. In Medan (North Sumatera) on September 29-30, 2011

2. in Bandung (West Java) on December 15-16, 2011.

FRPS is actually our annual agenda and this year we plan to arrange to 2 FRPS above.

We do appreciate your kindness to accept our invitation to give a professorship (prominent scholar) lecture in FRPS in Bandung on December 15-16, 2011. Besides you, insha Allah we also have had a confirmation from Prof. Volker Nienhouse to give the same lecture. So we will insha Allah have 2 professoship lectures in Bandung.

However, for the FRPS in Medan, we plan to have a professorship lecture from Dr. Obaidullah (IRTI) and Dr. Zamir Iqbal (World bank) and Dr. Obaidullah has confirmed to come. But, we are afraid that Dr. Zamir iqbal is not able to come due to some reasons.

As such, if you do not mind, would it be possible for you to to give a professorship lecture in Medan (September 29-30th, 2011) together with Dr. Obaidullah instead of giving lecture in the one in Bandung?

However, if you may only give a lecture in Bandung and can not give it in Medan, that's also fine for us as the most important one for us is to listen to your professorship lecture either in Bandung or medan.

Lastly, insha Allah today we will send you the formal invitation letter (signed by our deputy governor). The letter schedules your lecture in Bandung but up to your availability we are happy for you to still give lecture in Bandung or in Medan.

I wait for your kind reply. Thank you so much indeed.

Salam

Rifki Ismal

Bank Indonesia

Jakarta - Indonesia

--- On Mon, 8/15/11, Asad Zaman <asadzaman@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

From: Asad Zaman <asadzaman@alum.mit.edu>

Subject: Re: Invitation to Islamic Banking Research Forum (Bank Indonesia-central bank of Indonesia)

To: "rifki ismal" <rifki_ismal@yahoo.com>

Date: Monday, August 15, 2011, 5:21 AM

My contact address is:

Dr. Asad Zaman,

DG, IIIE, International Islamic University

Sector H-10, Islamabad, Pakistan.

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:23 AM, rifki ismal <rifki_ismal@yahoo.com> wrote:

Assalamu'alaikum wr wb

Dear Prof. Asad Zaman,

JazakAllahu khair, thank you so much indeed for your kindness to accept our invitation. We do appreciate it.

We are now preparing for a formal letter (signed by our deputy governor) to be sent to you. May I have your contact address please?

Thank you so much

Rifki Ismal

Bank Indonesia

Jakarta - Indonesia

--- On Thu, 8/11/11, Asad Zaman <asadzaman@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

From: Asad Zaman <asadzaman@alum.mit.edu>

Subject: Re: Invitation to Islamic Banking Research Forum (Bank Indonesia-central bank of Indonesia)

To: "rifki ismal" <rifki_ismal@yahoo.com>

Date: Thursday, August 11, 2011, 5:19 AM

Dear Brother Rifki Ismail, Assalamo Alaikum

Thank you very much for your invitation. I think that these dates are feasible for me, and I would be happy to come to deliver a talk at your conference.

with best regards

Asad Zaman

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:24 PM, rifki ismal <rifki_ismal@yahoo.com> wrote:

Assalamu'alaikum wr wb

Dear Dr. Asad Zaman.

How are you Brother? I hope you are fine and happy Ramadhan as well for you and your family. First of all, I am Rifki Ismal, a bank researcher at Directorate of Islamic Banking - Bank Indonesia (the central bank of Indonesia) in Jakarta.

I am writting this email to you on behalf of Bank Indonesia because we insha Allah plan to arrange the event called “Bank Indonesia’s Islamic Banking Research Forum (FRPS)” on December 15-16, 2011. The forum is established by Bank Indonesia to facilitate the academias and researchers to present their best-awarded research papers on Islamic finance and economics.

The competetion for best call for papers is national-wide and the participants of the forum are from the universities all over the country. The audience will be professors, senior students and Islamic bankers, targeted ­300 audiences. The venue of this year ‘FRPS’ will be at University of Padjajaran, in the City of Bandung - West Java, Indonesia (http://www.unpad.ac.id/).

The main agendas of the forum are: (i) prominent scholar lectures, (ii) professorship lecture (by local professor on islamic finance, and (iii) presentation of research papers.

Regarding this event, we would like to humbly invite you to be one of the prominent (world) scholars in the field to speak a topic about Islamic economics/finance/banking. We do hope to learn a lot from your expertise, knowledge and experience on Islamic economics/banking and finance and we would be very please if you could kindly accept our invitation and come to Indonesia.

We wait for your kind reply Dr. Zaman, and once we have your positive respond, we’ll manage to send a formal invitation letter and other necessary arrangements.

JazakAllahu khair

Wassalamu'alaikum ,

Rifki ismal

Bank Indonesia - Jakarta

Ph. +62 (21) 3818451 / cell phone +62 821 14 320 365