KONTRIBUSI KARAKTERISTIK PERUSAHAAN DAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE TERHADAP PUBLIKASI SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

Abstract

Sustainability report is a voluntary report to present corporate responsibility on social, economy, and environment aspects. There are about 47.1% of the company's mining industry makes voluntary sustainability reporting. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of profitability, leverage, size of the company, the board of directors, audit committee, and governance committee toward sustainability report publication. The population of the study is the entire mining industry companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2011 to 2013. Using purposive sampling technique, the study collected data from 17 companies. There are 51 annual reports as unit of analysis in 2011-2013. This study used logistics regression as an analysis method. The results show that the variable profitability, firm size, and governance committee, contribute positively to the publication of sustainability report. Leverage, the board of directors and audit committee does not affect the sustainability report publication. Future research should pay attention to the quality of sustainability report disclosure based on GRI guidelines. And then use a different measurements as a proxy of variables or consider economic factors, such as exchange rate, interest rate, or the rate of inflation to produce better research.