6. Laws No.20 1999 on Ratifying of ILO Convention No.138 concerning Minimum Age for
Admission to Employment (State Gazette 1999, No.56, Additional State Gazette No. 3835);
7. Laws No.39 1999 on Human’s Rights (State Gazette 1999, No.165, Additional State Gazette No.
3835);
8. Laws No.1 2000 on Ratifying ILO Convention No.182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate
Action for The Elimination of The worst Form of Child labor (State Gazette 2000, No.30,
Additional State Gazette No. 3941).
By approval of:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
DECIDES :
Enacting : LAWS ON CHILDREN PROTECTION
CHAPTER I
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Chapter 1
In these laws, what is meant by:
1. A child is someone who has not reached the age of 18 (eighteen), including fetus in womb.
2. Protection is any activities to guarantee and protect children and their rights so that they can live,
grow, develop, and participate optimally in line with dignities of humanity, as well as acquire
protection from violence and discrimination.
3. Family is the smallest unit in society that consists of husband and wife, or husband, wife and
child(ren), or father and his child(en), or mother and her child(ren), or bloodline family in a
straight line up or down until the third generation.
4. Parents are father and/or biological mother, or father and /or step mother, or father and/or foster
mother.
5. Guardian is people or a body that in fact exercise(s) caregiving authority as parents to their
child(ren).
6. Abandoned child is a child whose needs are not decently fulfilled, be it physical, mental, spiritual
or social needs.
7. A disabled child is a child who has physical and/or mental limitation so that it disturbs normal
growth and development.
8. A child who excels is a child who possesses extraordinary intelligence or has potentials and/or
special talents.
9. An adopted child is a child whose rights are transferred from the authority of parents’ family,
legal guardian, or other people responsible for treatment, education, and raising of a child, into
the foster parents’ family based on court’s ruling.
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