Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Indonesia (Ratification: 2004)

Articles 1, 4, 10 and 11 of the Convention. Impact of decentralization on the effective functioning of the labour inspection system. Number of labour inspectors and material means placed at their disposal. The Committee notes the Government’s recognition in its report that the number of labour inspectors remains below the ideal level and that, as of December 2023, there were 1,467 labour inspectors (989 male and 478 female). The Committee notes that this represents a continuing decrease in comparison to the 1,694 inspectors in 2020 and the 1,927 inspectors in 2016. The Committee also notes the concluding observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) on the second periodic report of Indonesia, adopted in March 2024 in which the CESCR expressed its concern about the limited capacity and resources to conduct labour inspections with sufficient coverage and frequency (E/C.12/IDN/CO/2, paragraph 36). While recognizing the Government’s efforts to increase the number of inspectors, including through recruitment and training, the Committee wishes to emphasize that

The Committee is raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.