This research aims to form a Human governance index (HGI) using Board of Directors (BOD) attributes such as BOD job experience, BOD education background, BOD education level, BOD age, BOD gender diversity, degree of integrity, BOD training and development, and the quality of the internal control system. This research is based on a review of 70 Shariah-compliant companies' annual reports for the fiscal year ending in 2019. There are a total of 70 Shariah-compliant businesses. A representative from academia checked the measurement of this study. This study revealed that HGI is higher for Malaysia than Indonesia with 0.60 and 0.48 respectively. BOD job experience index has the highest mean for both countries, indicating that the majority of BOD has more than ten years of experience and the BOD gender diversity index has the lowest mean for both countries, indicating that the majority BOD are males. BOD education background index is almost similar between Shariah companies in Malaysia and Indonesia. BOD education level index and BOD age for Malaysia is lower than Indonesia. However, it can be seen that the integrity index is much higher for Malaysia than Indonesia, as in Malaysia it is mandatory to include the statement of internal control in the annual report, but it is not the case in Indonesia. Human governance has been proven to increase organizational performance through values, norms, and ethics implemented within the organization.

This study aims to evaluate the relationship between Islamic corporate governance (ICG), human governance (HG), and information technology (IT) usage on sustainability reporting (SR) by investigating Shariah compliant companies in Malaysia and Indonesia. Data was collected from 68 manufacturing Shariah compliant companies’ annual reports for Malaysia, and 70 manufacturing Shariah compliant companies’ annual reports for Indonesia, for the year ended 2019. Descriptive and multiple regression analysis was used to analyse the data. The study found that HG Index and IT Usage Index were positive and significantly related to sustainability reporting for Shariah companies in both countries. However, ICG was not found to be significantly related to sustainability reporting for Shariah companies in Malaysia and Indonesia. This could be because the study focuses only on manufacturing companies, and in Malaysia and Indonesia, only about 24% of the companies and 13% of the companies respectively, have an ICG structure in place. The study suggests that to increase SR of Shariah compliant companies, there should be a good HG structure in place, and they should increase their level of IT usage in their business operations. Resource-Based theory can explain the relationship of IT Usage and HG to SR.

In developing countries, particularly South Asia, there is scarce research on corporate governance and sustainability reporting disclosure. This study considers several insightful theories, including Stakeholder Theory, Agency Theory, and the TOE Framework, to understand the relationships and drivers of sustainability reporting. The study examines Indonesian Islamic corporates using data from the ISSI (Indonesia Shariah Stock Index). We gathered annual reports and sustainability reports from the ISSI database for the year 2019. The study investigates how human governance (HG), Islamic corporate governance (ICG), and information technology usage (ITU) are related to sustainability reporting disclosure (SR). The findings showed that the sustainability reporting disclosure was significantly influenced by human governance and Islamic corporate governance with firm size and leverage. Furthermore, the research showed that profitability was not significantly related to sustainability reporting disclosure, that Islamic corporate governance had a significant negative influence on SR, and that IT usage was only significant when human governance was not present. Finally, the results showed that human governance is the main driver of sustainability reporting disclosure. Therefore, we conclude that human governance is the best predictor for sustainability reporting disclosure.