statements, and the company's goal to achieve optimal profit levels reflects the
performance of Islamic banks.
The performance of Islamic banks is an important key to determine the position of
Islamic banks in the banking world. In Indonesia, the performance of Islamic banks is
measured as reported by Bank Indonesia (BI) using financial information, such as
assets, financing, pooling of funds, capital, and profitability (Bank Indonesia, 2007).
This information is also used to measure the performance of conventional banks. But
in principle there is a difference between Islamic banks and conventional banks, namely
in Islamic banks there are profit sharing principles while in conventional banks use the
principle of interest (Antonio M. S., 2001). The performance of Islamic banks can be
measured in various aspects. In this study, aspects of Islamic bank performance used
are fixed assets, third party funds, and five 24 financial ratios, namely the ratio of
operational efficiency measured by OER, liquidity ratios measured by NPF and FDR,
profitability ratios measured by ROA, and solvency ratios measured by CAR (Kasmir,
2008).
In this study, researchers wanted to further test the research conducted by Nasuha
(2012), Siswantoro (2014) dan Al Arif (2017) comparing the three policies establishing
Islamic banks. Al Arif (2017) see that spin off policies affect financial performance
using influence analysis. The difference between this research and the previous research
is that this study uses MANOVA for different tests so that it really distinguishes inter-
bank performance after changing to BUS. This research becomes important to prove
from the way of their establishment which gives the best performance. So, based on the
description above, researchers are interested in researching more about "Differences of
Islamic Bank Performance Based on Establishment Method: Evidence from Indonesia.
In this case the researchers took samples from the BUS with the three methods of
separation, namely the way of spin off, acquisition and mergers, as well as conversion,
namely BNI Syariah, BJB Syariah, BRI Syariah, Bukopin Syariah Bank, Victoria
Syariah Bank, and Aceh Syariah Bank. Analysis of financial performance in this study
was seen from four variables. The financial performance used is OER, FDR, ROA, and
CAR.
The results of this study shows that there is a significant difference among three
establishment methods of Islamic banks. Further analysis using post-hoc test indicates
that Islamic banks established through acquisition and merger method have better
efficiency and capital adequacy compared to Islamic banks established using other
methods. While in terms of liquidity and profitability, Islamic banks established
through conversion method perform better than Islamic banks established using other
methods. It suggests that Islamic banks established either using acquisition and merger
method or conversion methods have better financial performance than Islamic banks
established using pure spin-off method.
The remainder of this paper is organised as follows. The second section briefly
discusses the literature review. The third section explains the research methodology
used in the study and hypothesis development. The empirical results and analysis are
discussed in the fourth section. Lastly, conclusions are drawn in the final section with
a brief explanation of the limitations and suggestions for future research.