Developing a Web-Based Fatwa of the Council of Indonesian Ulama

Abstract

The Council of Indonesian Ulama (MUI) as an institution of fatwa (legal opinion) making has decided a large number of fatwa in response to religious, social, cultural, economic, and political problems that occurred in Indonesian society to be implemented by Muslims in Indonesia. Usually MUI fatwa is written in a structured document that contains information theorems based on the legal decision methodology regarding the fatwa in question. In this study, we developed a document retrieval system regarding fatwas of MUI. We compared our searching method from the official website of MUI using keywords and results on the document with high relevancy to the keywords. Our solution provides a system that indicates the returns of more documents than the existing one.