Corporate Secretary / Company Secretary / Sekretaris Perusahaan

Let’s be serious for once, sit with me and take a sit.

Let’s have a chat on what I’m doing …

Some people often asked for what I’m doing,

for once it’s easy for me to explain

but for couple times people don’t really get what I’ve been done.

I am working for Corporate Secretary.

Not the secretary in term of administrator or assistant for anybody,

or somebody who take the phone call, make an appointment for anybody.

Quite like a secretary for the company and ensuring its compliance to legal requirements.

Coprporate Secretary assists the Company’s board so that they are and they act in line with the prevailing regulations.

The definition from Wikipedia verse might help quite a bit :

A company secretary is a senior position in a private company or public organization, normally in the form of a managerial position or above. In the United States it is known as a corporate secretary.


The Company Secretary is responsible for the efficient administration of a company, particularly with regard to ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements and for ensuring that decisions of the Board of Directors are implemented.


Despite the name, the role is not a clerical or secretarial one in the usual sense. The company secretary ensures that an organization complies with relevant legislation and regulation, and keeps board members informed of their legal responsibilities. Company secretaries are the company’s named representative on legal documents, and it is their responsibility to ensure that the company and its directors operate within the law. It is also their responsibility to register and communicate with shareholders, to ensure that dividends are paid and to maintain company records, such as lists of directors and shareholders, and annual accounts.


In many countries, private companies have traditionally been required by law to appoint one person as a company secretary, and this person will also usually be a senior board member. The earning capacity of senior level company secretaries is often underestimated. The average salary of a company secretary working in a organisation is £180,000 (as per this note shall be equal with IDR 2.422.080.000 or US$ 259.020 .. let say per year, so monthly you will get IDR 201.840.000 per month Woowwww …. Amazing … I guess in Indonesia this is Director’s salary or even Ministry’s salary ???? who knows lah …someday…tapi pada saat inflasi berapa ya? Hahaha…)


Back to Indonesian Law, as refer to Bapepam-LK Regulation No.IX.I4. every public company is required to establish or form corporate secretary function, which shall have the following tasks:

·         keep informed with respect to Capital Market developments, especially Capital Market Regulations;

·         provide the public with all information needed by investors regarding the condition of the Issuer or Public Company;

·         make recommendations to the Issuer or Public Company’s board of directors with respect to compliance with the Capital Market regulations and its implementation rules;

·         act as the Issuer’s or Public Company’s contact person  with Bapepam-LK and the public;

·         The functions of Corporate Secretary may be concurrently performed by a director of the Issuer or Public Company.

There !!! I told you all about the job! What is yours ?