Does Sustainability Disclosure Valuable? Study on
Issuers under the SRI-KEHATI Index of the Indonesia
Stock Exchange
Budi Purwanto
1
, Luthpiyah Juliandra
2
, Siti Jahroh
3
{budipurwanto@apps.ipb.ac.id
1
, sitijahroh@gmail.com
2
, Luthpiyah_juliandara@apps.ipb.ac.id
3
}
Department of Management, IPB University
1
, School of Business, IPB University
2,3
Abstract. Sustainability disclosures are intended to attract investors' attention,
however, for issuers under the SRI-KEHATI Index, their fundamental
performance does not better than under market performance in general. This study
aims to analyze whether the disclosure of sustainability can create economic value
added and market value. The sample is all issuers under the SRI-KEHATI index
from the beginning to 2019 which are filtered based on reporting performance.
Sustainability disclosure includes environmental, social and growth factors. The
analysis was performed using a moderated fixed effects panel data regression
model. The results show that the disclosure of sustainability does not have a direct
effect on both market and economic value added, and does not strengthen or
weaken the relationship between economic added and market value. This result
implies that investors do not aware of the effect of sustainability disclosure on the
fundamental performance and market value.
Keywords: Fundamental performance, Market performance, SRI-KEHATI
Index, Sustainability disclosure.
1 Introduction
Environmental issues are becoming a hot issue nowadays. Consequently, the
government, companies, and the community are required to work together to
forestall environmental conditions from getting worse. Specifically, companies
have a stake in environmental degradation that occurs, such as poor
management of industrial waste, air pollution generating from plant operations,
and many others. Accordingly, companies also need to participate in
maintaining the quality of the surrounding environment. Companies'
contribution to preserving the environment expect to be an added value for the
environment, investors, and shareholders.
Companies disclose their contributions and works that promote
environmental preservation through sustainability report disclosure intending to
provide information to investors and other stakeholders [1–3]. Santis [4]
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DOI 10.4108/eai.14-9-2020.2304900