Abstract :
Dividend policy is a decision to determine whether the profits earned by a company will be distributed as dividends to shareholders or hold by company for retained earnings to obtain investment in the future. This study aims to examine the effect of business risk as well as control variables including leverage, liquidity, profitability and firm size to bank dividend policy in Indonesia. The object of this research is conventional banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period 2015-2019. This study uses a purposive sampling method, so that 19 bank samples were obtained from 41 populations of conventional banks. This study uses the fixed effect model and multiple regression analysis is used in testing the hypothesis. This study results that business risk has a negative and significant effect on bank dividend policy in Indonesia; leverage and profitability have no significant negative effect on bank dividend policy in Indonesia; liquidity has no significant positive effect on bank dividend policy in Indonesia; and firm size has a positive and significant effect on bank dividend policy in Indonesia.