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--- In [email protected], "sunny" <am...@...> wrote: > > Refleksi : Ini tanda kemajuan NKRI 60 tahun merdeka? > > http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/1265898880/ri-had-17-million-child-laborers-in-2009-survey > > RI had 1.7 million child laborers in 2009 : survey > Thursday, February 11, 2010 21:34 WIB | National | | > > Two child labors in Ringinagung village, Magetan, East Java. (ANTARA/Arief > Priyono)Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia had no fewer than an estimated 1.7 > million child laborers in 2009, according to a survey conducted by the > Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) in cooperation with the International > Labor Organization (ILO). > > A member of the BPS team that carried out the survey, Uzair Suhaimi, said the > survey results were currently used by the National Action Committee against > Child Labor which hopes to have eradicated the practice by 2022. > > "The survey still had some shortcomings, but it was an initial step to > eliminate child labor in Indonesia," he said at seminar on child labor here > Thursday. > > Suhaimi said the child labor survey had been prepared since 2006 in > cooperation with ILO which had been raising the issue since 2006. Sample > regions for the survey were chosen in 2008. > > The survey was conducted in 248 districts and sampling was done on some > 12,000 households across the country. > > "The survey was done on 12,000 registered households and did not cover > homeless street children," Suhaimi said. > > Recording the number of homeless child laborers had proven to be too > difficult but efforts would be made to overcome those difficulties in future > surveys, he said. > > The surveyed children were aged 5-17 years old and, the 17-year age limit was > accepted in accordance with existing legal norm on the maximum age of a > child, said Suhaimi. > > Meanwhile, a member of the ILO monitoring and evaluation team, Abdul Hakim > said child labor must be eradicated quickly, and parents or other adults who > employed children must be called to account. > > "The adults who employ children must obviously also be held responsible, not > only the parents. In fact, we all must be responsible when we see or know > about children being put to work," he said. > > Hakim further said child labor happens when the children involved are under > 17 years old and are forced to live in slavery-like conditions, engage in > commercial sex, illegal or hazardous activities. > > The results of the survey was a warning to the government to address the > child labor issue more seriously. > > "ILO has always supported government efforts to eliminate child labor in > Indonesia," Hakim said. > > To free Indonesia from child labor by 2022, the government should focus on > activities that have a direct impact on welfare and child survival, he said. > > Besides, the government should also resolve many child labor cases by > adapting previous handled cases properly. > > "The government should focus on this issue, and the various agencies > concerned should also have the spirit and refer to the initial plan to make > Indonesia free from child labor," Hakim cited. > > Hakim also said that the law on child labor must be revised to make it more > effective in fighting exploitation of children. > > But he also said it was important to realize that fighting child labor was > the duty of the community, not only of the government or the social and child > protection services.(*) > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
