ROUNDING PRICES ON FUEL PURCHASES PERSPECTIVE OF CONSUMER PROTECTION LAW AND SHARIA ECONOMIC LAW

Abstract

In transactions that occur at gas stations when consumers fill up full tanks of fuel, gas stations will round off prices unilaterally without informing consumers in advance. This will be detrimental to consumers even though the rounding done is relatively low. Especially considering that in Islamic law buying and selling must be based on the element of mutual consent (antaradhin). In this price rounding, there are still some consumers who don’t give up. The purpose of this study is to find out the reasons for rounding off fuel prices at Tanjungan gas stations,  knowing the legal protection for consumers by rounding off fuel purchase prices at gas stations, knowing the perspective of sharia economic law on rounding off fuel purchase prices. The research method used is the type of field research using a qualitative approach. The results of the research are  rounding off prices by gas station operators for several reasons, namely the unavailability of small change notes, transaction officiency, additional money used by operators to buy drinking water and cover the shortfall during the total sift. Legal protection by rounding off prices, namely giving money back to consumers and giving consumers the right to submit complaints. In the perspective of sharia economic law, rounding off prices contradicts the legal princpiles of sharia economics, namely the principle of antaradhin, namely voluntarism in dealing with muamalah and the principle of ash-shiddiq, namely honesty in dealing with muamalah.