A survey by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Indonesia's Central Statistics Bureau (BPS) recorded that in 2009 there were four million child workers in the archipelago, out of a total of 58.8 million children in the country. As many as 1.7 million of them had dangerous occupations.

That was the last time a survey on the matter was conducted. But broader BPS surveys on the national labor force showed that from 2007-2010 the number of c