University of Indonesia one of the very well known
stated-owned university in Indonesia. Universitas Indonesia (the
University of Indonesia, UI) was established on 2 February 1950.
Initially, UI was located at the Universiteit van Indonesia campus
set up by the Dutch colonial government in several cities for example
Jakarta, Bogor, Bandung, Surabaya and Makassar. However, spiritually
UI was originally from Balai Perguruan Tinggi Indonesia (Higher
Institution of Indonesia) on the basis of Indonesia cultures. On
December 26, 2000, on the basis on the Government Decree No. 152
in the year of 2000, UI was officially a self-supporting state-owned
university with its status as a State-owned Legal Corporate/Venture/
Enterprise (Badan Hukum Milik Negara, BHMN) or autonomous public
university. With the status, UI is obliged to prioritize professionally
managerial performance of a public university on the basis of the
principles of efficiency, effectiveness, accountability and transparency.
The collaboration between the University of Indonesia
and IPEC was started in 1996 by conducting a study on Child Labour
in Manufacturing Industry-Indonesia. This collaboration was carried
out together with the Demographic Institute. The study gives describes
how poor the working environment of the children in these industries
located in Jakarta and Bandung. In June 1999, another collaboration
was established with the Laboratory of Sociology Department by conducting
a Rapid Assessment on Children Working in Mining in Central Kalimantan.
The rapid assessment describes the hazards that the child labour
in Central Kalimantan facing. The third collaboration was carried
out together with the Department of Social Welfare- Faculty of Social
and Political Sciences- University of Indonesia in November 2000
by conduction a study on The Preliminary Description of the Situation
on The Trafficking of Children in Indonesia. The collected information
in the study confirms the assumption that trafficking indeed is
a problem in Indonesia. The information indicates that children
are increasingly being recruited and sold within and across national
borders by organized networks. The child's vulnerability to exploitation
is even greater when they arrive in another country, where they
find themselves at the mercy of the employer and authorities, often
with ties to their families severed.
