PELAPORAN DAN KINERJA PERTANGGUNGJAWABAN LlNGKUNGAN PERUSAHAAN-PERUSAHAAN PUBLlK PESERTA PROPER DI INDONESIA

Abstract

This research aims to examine the difference of environment disclosure before and after the presence of the new corporation act, Act No. 40 (2007). This new regulation should be able to enhance corporate envitonmental responsibility. The greater compliance should be directed to the participants of program for environmental ranking (widely known as PROPER). This research also examines two competing theory which is used in most related research to predict the relationship between environmental disclosure and environmental performance i.e. economic-based theory and social political-based theory (Clarkson et al., 2008). The results indicated insignificant increase of environmental disclosure score after the presence of new regulation. This research suggested that economic-based theory is more likely to predict the relation between environmental disclosure and environmental performance.