Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2022, published 111st ILC session (2023)

Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) - Indonesia (Ratification: 1999)

Article 7 of the Convention. Light work. In its previous comments, the Committee requested the Government to provide information on the measures taken to enforce section 69(2) of the Manpower Act regulating light work of children, as well as information on any violations detected and penalties imposed related to the employment of children aged 13 and 14 years in non-light work activities.

The Government indicates that labour inspectors regularly visit companies to monitor child labour and cases of violations of section 69(2) of the Manpower Act. The Committee takes note of the Government’s information that no cases of children involved in non-light work were detected in the formal sector in 2021.