Background

The ILO’s child labour Conventions, and its International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC), provide the ILO with a leading role in relation to work on child labour. In Indonesia, ILO-IPEC has been active since 1992. The programme aims at the progressive elimination of child labour, emphasizing the eradication of the worst forms as a priority, and to be achieved through strengthening the capacity of countries to deal with the problem. IPEC works towards achieving these objectives in a variety of ways including implementing pilot projects to tackle child labour that serve as models for country-led action; strengthening the capacity of governments, employers, workers and civil society to tackle child labour; and seeking to ensure that child labour concerns are integrated into member states social and economic policies.

The Indonesian Government ratified Convention 138 on Minimum age of Employment in 1999, and Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in 2000. Following Indonesia’s ratification of the ILO Convention 182 which was enacted by Act no 1/2000, a National Action Committee (NAC) on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour was established, with the relevant Departments, social partners and representatives of the civil society to implement the first phase of a National Action Plan for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour (NPAE-EWFCL).

However, the out of school children that turn in to worst form of work is very susceptible in the junior high school or after junior high school. This is exacerbated by poor implementation and enforcement of the national age of compulsory education (12 years) so most children aged 15 – 17 years old have limited access to continue their schooling and lack of skills for gainful employment in later life. Therefore, this age group is at high risk of falling into the worst forms of child labour including in the domestic work sector.

Four pillars in the road map from the elimination of worst from of child labour, those are: Harmonize of regulation and law enforcement, Education and training, social protection and labour marker policy has become instrument to prevent worst form of child labour, the pillar of education and skill would be provision from the children aged 15 -17 to prevent them to fall into worst form of worker.

The ILO project Combating child labour through skills and livelihoods training for older children is implementing training workshops in Indonesia through a number of activities which will develop capacity of local partners. The aim is improve the quality of skills training being provided by project partners and other organisations, and to help in developing strategic links on the issue of skills and livelihoods training for older children.

At a workshop recently held in the ILOs International Training Centre representatives from each of the project countries participated in a Training of trainers of workshop. This introduced the core content of a new resource material on skills and livelihoods for older children which will be the core resource for the national level training.

Objective

To improve the understanding of the livelihood skills training models in the agricultural sector which aims to tackle child labor as well as providing insight to the relevant stakeholder who play the role on child labor and training providers on the model of the training that can be implemented on any training program for out of school adolescents and youths to obtain expertise

Outputs of the Workshop

• Participant of the training have clear understanding tackling child labour through the skill training on livelihood.
• Build the commitment from the participant to replicate this training model in future training programme in particular for the regular programme out of school adolescents and youths to obtain expertise.