Child labour in the informal mining sector in East Kalimantan: a rapid assessment

Community gold mining is a tradition of several regions in Indonesia. This report is based on a rapid assessment involving 36 young people involved in the gold mining activities in one village of East Kalimantan province. It includes research on the community, families of young workers and gold mine operators.

The children working in the units performed many of the same jobs as the adults. The duties were not very hard and did not require a lot of effort. They worked between one and six hours when working on their own and between eight and fourteen hours when employed in a unit.