Child Labor Distribution in Indonesia in 2024: East Nusa Tenggara Highest

Based on the National Labor Force Survey (Sakernas) from the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS), 2.85% of Indonesian children aged 10-17 years old were working in 2024. This represents a 0.46 percentage point increase from the previous year's figure of 2.39%.

East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) had the highest proportion of child workers, reaching 7.20% last year, approximately double the national average.

Conversely, the lowest proportion of child workers was found in the Riau Islands, at 1.38%, followed by Aceh and South Kalimantan with 1.4% and 1.92%, respectively.

Note that data for Jakarta and Yogyakarta are unavailable due to excessively high measurement error rates (above 25%).

The following is the proportion of child workers aged 10-17 in Indonesia's 38 provinces in 2024, ordered from highest to lowest:

1. NTT: 7.20%

2. Southeast Sulawesi: 6.54%

3. West Nusa Tenggara: 5.51%

4. Gorontalo: 5.39%

5. South Sulawesi: 5.28%

6. Maluku: 5.2%

7. West Sulawesi: 5.1%

8. Central Sulawesi: 4.89%

9. North Maluku: 4.89%

10. North Kalimantan: 4.82%

11. North Sumatra: 4.61%

12. South Papua: 4.24%

13. Southwest Papua: 4.07%

14. West Papua: 3.92%

15. Central Papua: 3.81%

16. Highland Papua: 3.75%

17. Bali: 2.97%

18. Central Kalimantan: 2.97%

19. West Sumatra: 2.93%

20. South Sumatra: 2.93%

21. Lampung: 2.59%

22. Bengkulu: 2.43%

23. Central Java: 2.42%

24. East Kalimantan: 2.35%

25. Banten: 2.33%

26. West Kalimantan: 2.31%

27. West Java: 2.3%

28. Jambi: 2.17%

29. Riau: 2.11%

30. Papua: 2.09%

31. North Sulawesi: 2.07%

32. East Java: 2.06%

33. Bangka Belitung Islands: 2.05%

34. South Kalimantan: 1.92%

35. Aceh: 1.4%

36. Riau Islands: 1.38%

37. Jakarta: 0%

38. Yogyakarta: 0%

(Read: Child Labor Among 10-17 Year Olds in Indonesia Increased in 2024)