This study investigates the influence of the audit committee activities and institutional
ownership to the audit fees in Indonesia public companies. The research samples are
manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period 2010 – 2013.
There are 124 observations that meet the sample criteria, data are analyzed using Eviews 6.0.
The results show that the audit committee activities which measured by the number of audit
committee meetings have significant positive effect on the audit fees. Meanwhile, institutional ownership, diffused and blockholders institutional ownership do not significantly affect to the audit fees. However some of the control variables such as the number of wholly-owned subsidiaries, subsidiaries abroad, and audit quality have significant positive effect on audit fees, whereas leverage, loss and audit opinion have no significant effect on the audit fee.