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Technical Cooperation Project Summary

Project Title

Fishing and Footwear Sectors Program to Combat Hazardous Child Labor in Indonesia, Phase 2

Region/Country

ASIA/Indonesia

Project Duration

September 2002 – August 2004

Fiscal Year & Funding Level

FY2002: USD 899,316

Problem to be Addressed

Children in the informal footwear production sector face serious health hazards, including respiratory illness, dizziness, asthma and other illnesses.  Children are also engaged in hazardous child labor on the jermals (fishing platforms) off North Sumatra, where they work for up to three months at a time in hazardous conditions, unable to attend school.  

Results

The project withdrew 161 children and prevented 2,213 children from work in the informal footwear sectors in three districts in Bandung, Indonesia, and in the fishing sector in North Sumatra.

Project Objectives

Development Objective: To contribute to the progressive elimination of child labor in the fishing and footwear sectors in Indonesia by removing children from hazardous employment and working conditions and preventing more children from entering work. 

By the end of the project:

  • A sustainable mechanism to withdraw and prevent children from hazardous child labor in the fishing and footwear sectors will have been established;
  • The capacity of national and community-level agencies and organizations will have been strengthened to plan, initiate, implement and evaluate action to prevent and progressively eliminate child labor; and
  • Children working in the fishing and footwear sectors will have been removed from hazardous employment and working conditions; children at risk will have been prevented from entering work; and adult family members, particularly women, will have improved income earning capacity through social protection schemes.

Summary of Activities
  • Established a community-based child labor monitoring system;
  • Conducted regular monitoring and withdrawal missions through the Integrated Monitoring Team in the fishing component;
  • Removed children from hazardous work, and prevented children from starting work through the provision of social protection services, and provided income generation opportunities to family members;
  • Improved understanding of occupational safety and health concerns among footwear producers, labor inspectors, employers, workers, and community-based monitoring groups;
  • Built capacity among concerned government departments, employers organizations, the NGO community and community-based organizations to effectively combat child labor; and
  • Raised awareness among communities, government agencies, non-governmental agencies and other concerned groups about child labor.

Grantee

International Labor Organization’s International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC)

Implementing Partners

ILPM-ITB: Bandung Institute of Technology; SCN; PWI West Java; PKBI; Sidikara; BPKB (Center on Learning Activity Development); PGRI Bojongloa Kidul (Teacher’s Association); SP-TSK; SKEPO; LPKM – The Catholic University; Ulil Albab Foundation; Independent Film Community; Microsoft Indonesia; International Relief and Development, Inc.

Contact Information

Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT)

(202) 693-4843