Child Labour and Jermal Fishing Industry in Indonesia-Need to understand ‘Blue Economy’ from the Lens of International Labour Dispute Management: Towards Labour Justice in the Oceans

Abstract

Indonesia is not an exception to the concept of cheap labour and exploitation of child labour. 
Over Forty lakhs (4 million) child labours are involved in the sectors, namely, agriculture, 
forestry, and fishery. The work scope in these fisheries and aquaculture sectors ranges from 
fishing, diving, handling and repairing nets, herding fish, digging ice, cooking, loading and 
offloading fish, classing fish, salting fish, and peeling shrimp. The child labour in this Jermal 
fishing is a labour issue and seen from different angles. Whether the Child Labourers in the 
sphere of blue economy to be left remediless? The author also intends to connect the 
convergence problems between International Labour Law and International Human Rights 
Law in the above-said context.