KARSA Jurnal Sosial dan Budaya Keislaman has reflected the Universitas Islam Negeri Maduras strong commitment to publishing the best of multidisciplinary research, arts and humanities, social studies, cultural studies, including decision studies, gender studies, theoretical or empirically grounded, contemporary or interdisciplinary research in a social and artistic investigation, especially in sociocultural studies and related areas on Southeast Asia, Western Europe, and Indo Pacific region. Karsa is designed to appeal to both regional and global audiences. This journal aims to promote excellent, agenda-setting scholarship and provide a forum for dialogue and collaboration within and beyond the region. KARSA engages in wide-ranging and in-depth discussions attuned to the regions issues, debates, and imperatives while affirming the importance of learning and sharing ideas on a cross-country and global scale. An integral part of the journals mandate is to foster scholarship that is capable of bridging the continuing divide in area studies between sociological issues, halal research, environmental issues or ecological modelling, decision issues for government policy, gender issues, comparative religion issues, religious or theological issues, philosophy, political issues, ethnic studies, and other humanities issues, on the one hand, and the Islamic cultural studies on the other hand. KARSA also refers to research and social issues that specialize in the Islamic culture and humanities of the different states and ethnic groups of Southeast Asia, Western Europe, and the Indo Pacific.