e-ISSN: 2723-6692 🕮 p-ISSN: 2723-6595
Jurnal Indonesia Sosial Sains, Vol. 5, No. 4, April 2024 879
Information and Transactions, better known as the ITE Law. Through this Law, stock trading activities
through securities companies carried out online must provide clarity and truth of all information
supplied, this is then able to be a guarantee for investors to be able to carry out stock buying or selling
activities safely and legally guaranteed. Furthermore, OJK is the party that has the main role in
maximizing the legal function so as to prevent risks from securities companies, which is then
contained in OJK Regulation No. 1 / POJK.07 / 2013 concerning consumer protection in the financial
services sector, which is also the basis for the establishment of the Investment Alert Task Force
(Buana, 2022). To realize security in stock trading, investors must also have the understanding to be
able to choose a safe securities company based on its status as a legal company and have been licensed
and supervised by the OJK in order to get a better legal protection guarantee.
In addition to legal protection from securities companies, legal protection guarantees are also
provided to shareholders through the Capital Market Law and Limited Liability Company Law to
protect shareholders from the risks provided by PT. In Law No. 8 of 1995 concerning the capital
market, it is stated that no one, including majority shareholders, should ignore minority shareholders.
The legal protection of shareholders from the Capital Market Law is also strengthened in article 85,
which contains information disclosure that issuers who have licenses must provide open reports to
Bapepam. Those who are proven to have committed violations will get sanctions in the form of fines
which are also contained in article 102 of the Capital Market Law. Bapepam's authority to conduct
inspections of companies is contained in Article 100 of the Capital Market Law, which states that
Bapepam is authorized to perform checks on any party suspected of violating the Capital Market Law
and its implementing regulations (A. R. Salim, 2016, p. 217).
Complete legal protection of shareholders is regulated in the Limited Liability Company Law of
2007, especially those contained in Article 54 Paragraph 1, article 55, article 66 Paragraph 2, article
67, article 110 Paragraph 3, and Article 117 Paragraph 1. It is stated in Article 61, paragraph 1, that
shareholders have the right to file a lawsuit against the company to the district court if they feel
aggrieved by the company's actions that are considered unfair or unreasonable as a result of the GMS,
directors, or commissioners. Then it is also written in Article 62, paragraph 1, which states that
shareholders have the right to ask the company to buy its shares at a fair price if they do not agree to
the company's actions that are considered detrimental to shareholders or companies that include
changes to the articles of association (Sukmadilaga et al., 2021). Transfer or borrowing of company
assets with a value of more than 50% of the company's net worth and the occurrence of mergers,
takeovers, separation, or amalgamation of companies. Thus, shareholders also have the right to
contribute to the determination of company policies held in the GMS (Nasarudin, 2010, p. 89).
Legal protection is also provided through derivative actions stipulated in Article 97, paragraph
6 of the Limited Liability Company Law, which states that shareholders who represent at least 1/10
of all shares are able to file a lawsuit through the district court against members of the board of
directors for errors or omissions that then create losses to the company. Through this article,
shareholders have the right to be able to file a lawsuit in the district court if the company's board of
directors causes a company loss. In addition to having the right to file a lawsuit, shareholders also
have the right to apply for a company examination with the interest of obtaining data or information
contained in Article 138 of the Limited Liability Company Law, provided that if the company is
suspected of having committed actions that are contrary to the law and result in losses to
shareholders or third parties and if members of the board of directors or communications are
suspected of also committing acts that Violating the law so as to make the company or shareholders
suffer losses. Application for the examination can be done by sending a written application to the
district court in accordance with the company's area of residence. It can only be done by shareholders
representing at least 1/10 part of the total shares. These other parties have authority based on laws
and regulations or agreements made by the company and the prosecutor's office in the public interest.