Tri Sulistiyono, - The Phenomenon of Child Labour: Causes, Consequences, and Protection under Indonesian Law. In: the 2nd International Conference on Indonesian Legal Studies (ICILS 2019).

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Abstract

The term of child Labour can have the connotation of exploiting young children for their Labour, with a small salary or consideration for the development of their personality, safety, health, and prospects. Children underage that was employed is wrong even if employment is one of an essential part to support the economic development of a country. Indonesia has issued several regulations that related to Child Labour to reduce the number of Child Labour in Indonesia as well as protect the Child, but as a country that categorized as populous country mean the society need an expense for their life, so it is hard to deny that Child Labour still exists nowadays in Indonesia mainly because of economic reason. Children who become child workers, either because they are under the minimum age to work or because they work in dangerous or illegal conditions, cannot grow and develop optimally. The fact that Indonesia government have a road map to abolish Child Labour in 2022 but the data in 2015 show that the number of Child Labour still reach 1.6 million Children make us wonder why it is still happening. This paper will specifically address the significant reason behind why Child Labour still exists and consequences associated with Child Labour, along with the protection provided within the regulation. The goal to be achieved in this article is to find out what the real problems that make Indonesia still had a high number of Child Labour using normative research under descriptive qualitative consist of primary legal materials such as Laws and Regulation related to Child Labour, secondary legal materials such as opinions, scientific papers, journals and tertiary legal materials like encyclopedias, and dictionaries.

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