ILO-IPEC Jakarta

Institute for Social Development Studies (Lembaga Pengkajian Kemasyarakatan dan Pembangunan LPKP-Malang)

Lembaga Pengkajian Kemasyarakatan dan Pembangunan (LPKP) is an institute of society and development studies. It is a non-profit organization established in 1989 actively working to assist farmers and their families to generate better income. The organization has been entrusted with several economic development projects by international sponsors such as Terre des Hommes, the Netherlands, FADO (Flemmish Organization for Assistance in Development, Belgium) and a number of national sponsors such as Dana Mitra Lingkungan and Bank Indonesia.

The collaboration with IPEC started in 1992 until 1997. The first biennium collaboration was a health education services programme for working children in Wonorejo. The second biennium collaboration is providing community based health and educational services to working children in rural areas in East Java. In third biennium the aim was to strengthen the capacity of the Institute for Social Development Studies implement community based action for working children and transfer their know-how and skill to other organizations. During the 3 biennium of collaboration over 620 working children from 5 villages were provided with non formal education and pre-vocational training through 4 learning activities centers. Over 400 children were also provided with health services and 100 parents were trained with income generating skills. Local community was made aware of the importance of education and health for children through meetings, home visits, information services, workshops, education slogan, articles, and bulletins; capacity of the tutors and social workers was increased through training and the networking was established amongst NGOs which is now called JARAK in 1997 and the department of education and culture.

The foundation was successful in motivating the community to solve the problems faced by their children and also in convincing the working children and their parents about the advantage of the action programme for their children, although the programme did not succeed to totally change the situation of child labour. But the parents became aware of the importance of education and health for their children and also the community in general.