Legal Protection against Child Labour under the Terms of the Law of Indonesia

Abstract

Children must be protected so that they do not become victims of any individuals or groups, private and government organizations, either directly or indirectly. What is meant by the victims are those who suffer a loss mentally, physically, socially, because the act of passive or active conduct of another person or group of private or government, either directly or indirectly.

Article 68 of Law No. 13 of 2003 on Labor determines that employers are prohibited from employing children. And the provisions of the law, a child is any person under the age of 18 (eighteen) years. Means 18 (eighteen) years is the minimum age that allowed the government to work. Legal protection of children as labor is the prohibitions others in employing children: in places where liquor is consumed or sold, in the handling of general waste, handle or deliver dangerous goods, operate machinery dangerous, such as cutting machines, grinding machines, rollers, suppressing or destroyer, and others. In discotheques, places to play billiards or gambling in any place of public entertainment except with the intention not to take advantage, in the kitchen of the hotel, boarding house, where selling cooked food, café or restaurant, and others. Cleaning the outside of the window height is 3 meters above the ground, in a slaughterhouse, in the salon or massage places.