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Abstract:- A related party transaction is a transfer of has the ability to influence the financial and operating policies
resources, services or obligations between the reporting of the investee through the presence of control, joint control or
entity and related parties, regardless of whether a price is significant influence. Kang, Lee, Lee & Park (2014) state that
charged. There are several factors that can influence RPT is a transfer of resources, services, or obligations from a
abusive or efficient related party transactions, namely reporting entity to related parties, which usually refers to
family ownership and political connections. This study executives, boards of directors, and major shareholders .
discusses the effect of family ownership and political
connections on related party transactions with control Kohlbeck & Mayhew (2010) stated that RPT can
variables, namely audit quality, firm size, profitability and categorized into 2 namely RPT which has a positive impact or
firm age. This research focuses on mining companies listed efficient transaction if RPT can be used as an efficient and
on the Indonesian stock exchange in 2016-2020 with a profitable contract mechanism for companies to achieve
research sample of 170 companies. Data analysis used shareholder value maximization by reducing transaction costs
Eviews 9 with the Random Effect Model test. The results thereby achieving good economies of scale for the company.
of the study show that family ownership and political RPT can be a management effort to improve company
connections have an effect on related party transactions. performance (Williamson, 1975; Stein, 1997)
Control variables are audit quality, company size,
company age effect on related party transactions. Conversely, the second RPT is detrimental (abusive
Profitability has no effect on related party transactions. RPT) if the related party transaction is used to manipulate the
company's operating results for economic gain which only
Keywords:- Related Party Transactions, Family Ownership, benefits the company's majority shareholder. Yeh, Shu & Su
Political Connections, Audit Quality, Company Size, (2012) state that a detrimental RPT is the appropriation of
Profitability, Company Age. wealth from minority shareholders by majority/ controlling
shareholders.
I. INTRODUCTION
The ownership structure in Indonesia is the same as other
The company's financial statements aim to provide Asian countries which have a concentrated ownership
information regarding the financial position, financial structure in one group such as the family or the state. In
performance and cash flows of entities that are useful to most Indonesia with a concentrated ownership pattern and the main
users of financial statements in making economic decisions owner The dominant (ultimate control) is the family (Arifin,
(statement of financial accounting standart/PSAK No. 1, 2018, 2003). Previous research in Indonesia found that RPT
Paragraph 09). Information contained in a company's financial transactions are in line with family ownership (Barokah, 2013;
statements can be useful if it is presented in a transparent, Dyanty et al 2013). According to a survey conducted by Price
accurate and timely manner when needed by Waterhouse Cooper (PWC ) in 2014, more than 95 percent of
shareholders/creditors and potential investors/creditors to companies in Indonesia are family businesses. Claessen et al.
assess the company's financial condition, as well as the (1999) found that more than 50% of companies in Indonesia
company's going concern, as a basis for decision-making. One are controlled by families.
of the information presented in the report corporate finance is
information about related party transactions or related party Company impact family control on RPT can be explained
transactions (RPT). by entrenchment or alignment effects. The entrenchment
effect is defined as the ability of the ultimate controlling
In Indonesia, RPT is based on statements of financial shareholder to determine the company's operational policy in
accounting standards number 7 of 2014 concerning disclosure accordance with his personal interests, even if he has to
of related parties. A related party transaction is a transfer of sacrifice the interests of the shareholders and other
resources, services or obligations between the reporting entity stakeholders. When the entrenchment effect dominates, family
and related parties, regardless of whether a price is charged. ownership encourages related party transactions to strengthen
According to IAS 24, the RPT relationship is activity normal motivation to expropriate through related party transactions
activities of commerce and business. For example, an entity because control is in the hands of one family controller
often carries out some of its activities through subsidiaries, (Dyanty, 2013). Hu et al (2012) state that there is a lot of
joint ventures and associates. In such circumstances, the entity information owned by family ownership as the controlling
Company Age
According to Lee and Choi (2015) the longer the period
of time a company is registered, the higher the possibility that
the company has long-term investment decisions and high
corporate value. Through the age of the company, investors Fig 1 Research Frameworks
can see whether a company is able to continue to survive and
A. Research Sample
B. Descriptive Statistics
The influence of political connections on the RPT The results of this study are consistent with research conducted
The test results in table 3 show that political connections by Azim et al (2018), Amzaleg & Barak (2011), Mohammed
have a positive effect on RPT with a value of 0.0118, which (2019), Cheyoong et al (2015), Kohlbeck et al (2018), Munir
means that it has a significant effect on RPT. The research (2011), Berto (2019) ), Abdullatif et al (2019), Ernawati &
results are consistent with research conducted by Ismail et al Aryani (2019).
(2022), Supatmi et al (2021), Habib et al (2017) and Rahman
& Nugrahanti (2021) Family ownership has proven to be more encouraging for
the magnitude of related party transactions. Family ownership
Ismail et al (2022) stated that many Egyptian companies of the controlling shareholder has proven to strengthen
are still connected to political boards of directors and political motivation to engage in related party transactions. This is very
relations have a significant effect on RPT. Supatmi et al (2021) reasonable because if there are several companies (company
state that political connections strengthen the RPT effect on groups) in the hands of one family controller, the family's
company value. Habib et al. (2017) and Rahman & Nugrahanti wealth is spread over many companies. These conditions will
(2021) state that there is a political connection can be used to allow for expropriation through related party transactions
practice RPT through related party transactions committed by (Dyanty et al, 2012). Family controlled companies have low
the majority shareholder against the minority shareholder . motivation to disclose related party transactions. This result
can be an indication that the family as the controlling
The effect of family ownership on RPT shareholder takes advantage of related party transactions
Table 3 shows the results statistical test that the value of (Ernawati & Aryani, 2019)
family ownership is 0.0329 which means family ownership
has a significant positive effect on related party transactions.