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The role of government is very important in an Islamic economy. The government is not only responsible for the establishment of Islamic values and norms in the society ,but also in economic matters such as fulfillment of basic needs, achieving full employment, price stability and low inflation, growth and development that lead to economic well being and welfare. T o achieve that goal, the government certainly needs an appropriate policy to direct the economy into desired goal and direction.One of the policies is monetary policy .Monetary policy refers to the control of the supply of money to achieve and accomplish manageable inflation,price stability ,full employment and steady growth in the economy. This research tries to investigate the role of monetary policy and its implication on economic development in an Islamic perspective conceptually and theoretically. It found that the role of monetary policy is the same as that in modern economy, except that in Islamic economy ,the role of government is to ensure the Islamic values and nor ms to prevail in the society including the establishment of free interest economy and Islamic financial system that is free from interest based. The instruments of monetary policy in an Islamic perspective are not only confined in using open market operation, reserve ratio, discount rate, but also beyond those tools such as credit rationing, lending ratio and profit ratio which are based on the Islamic principles of interest free based economy.

Fiscal policy beside monetary policy is usually used by the government to overcome the macro economic problems regarding stabilization in the short-run such as control of inflation to make it low inflation, alleviating poverty, achieving full employment and control of balance of payment to make it in balance or even surplus and in the long-run achieving economic growth, prosperity and sustainable economic development. This research tries to investigate the role of fiscal policy and its implication on economic development in an Islamic perspective conceptually and theoretically. It found that the instrument of fiscal policy in an Islamic perspective not only using tax and government expenditure but also zakah which could be utilized to counter cyclical fiscal policy. Zakah as one of the instrument of fiscal policy could also be utilized to achieve equitable distribution of income and wealth as the basic characteristic of zakah is redistribution of wealth taken from the rich and given to the poor ones. In the time of stagflation, zakah instrument could become powerful tool to overcome that problem through demand side and thus stimulate production. Although this mechanism is not as simple as we perceived, zakah does help overcome the macroeconomic problems on conditions that we also adopt and implement Islamic values and Islamic norms in our economy.

The general objective of this study was to determine the culinary mapping of Peranakan Chinese menu in Semarang City, Central Java. The specific objectives of this research are to find out how to provide Peranakan Chinese menu culinary based on the number and types that exist in Semarang City. Furthermore, to find out how to serve the Peranakan Chinese menu culinary provision and to find out efforts to preserve the Peranakan Chinese menu as a culinary speciality of Semarang City. The technique of collecting primary data is very useful for collecting information needed for analysis and decision making. Based on the results of the research, it is obtained that the provision of Peranakan Chinese menu culinary in the city of Semarang in several types of dishes and drinks still uses original recipes from ancestors, both cooking ingredients, spices and cooking techniques. The culinary presentation of the Peranakan Chinese menu in some culinary shows distinctiveness without leaving its authenticity even though there are several additional menu variants. Efforts to preserve the Peranakan Chinese menu as a culinary speciality of the city of Semarang have been made by culinary business people, families, communities and the Semarang City government.