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  • QONITA QURROTI AINI. The Influence of Dividend Announcement toward Abnormal Return in Corporation that Listed at Indonesia Exchange on year 2011. Faculty of Economics State University of Jakarta. 2013. This study aimed to examine the effect caused by the dividend announcement towards abnormal return on stocks of companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in 2011. Influence is shown by a significant difference between the abnormal returns before and after the events of dividend announcements by issuers. This study uses event study method. Data required to calculate the abnormal return consisting of dividend announcement date, stock price, and Jakarta Composite Index (JCI). The data was obtained from the website of the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) and Yahoo Finance. Abnormal return types used are average abnormal return (AAR) and the expected return estimation model used is market adjusted model. Period specified events ranging from t-7 to t+7. Descriptive analysis showed that the average abnormal return (AAR) is the lowest occurred on t-6 event, the amount of -0.00264. While most high AAR occurs at t+1 events, that is equal to 0.007325. From the results of hypothesis testing using paired sample t-test concluded that there was significant difference between the abnormal returns both before and after the dividend announcement.