Maqasid Shariah perspective on Indonesia's winning strategy of paper dumping lawsuit on WTO

Abstract

In the last eight years, Indonesia has extensive forests as paper raw materials and has experienced three accusations of paper dumping practices in foreign trade or exports. The allegation of dumping practices addressed to Indonesia was submitted to the WTO as the institution that oversees all trade issues between countries in the form of filing a case or trade lawsuit. Three lawsuits from Pakistan, South Korea, and Australia over allegations of paper dumping practices at the WTO have been won by Indonesia. From an Islamic law perspective, dumping itself is prohibited if it aims to harm other countries. This article aims to provide an overview of Indonesia's paper dumping practice allegations from the perspective of Islamic law, with an explanatory and narrative approach.