Traditional way thinks that become child labor is not terrible, but independent and well guaranteed in their living needs, because they can earn money for living by being a labor. But in fact, child labor life is so terrible, even to strong youth worker. They must struggle and get no payment just to remain life and suffering just to get some food. It’s dangerous to let underage children going to work because they’re too young and not have quite self-defence to face the reality of life. Violence usually occur to them while they’re working or resting at the working place. There are so many violence against child labor that devastating their mental psychological growth and caused irreversible damage leading to permanent disability, such as physical violence, humiliation of human being, and sexual harassment. Violence against children is a violation of their human rights, a disturbing reality of our societies.
“She punched me when she get angry. She had hit me for three times. Once she slaped my face and kick my right waist. It was hurt and bruised. I can’t go to doctor to get medical treatment. She just laught at me when i say that i want to go to doctor.” Asma, sixteen years of age, Medan, 31st of December 2004, www.hrw.org. The confession above is just one from many ways of physical violence occurred to child labor. Child labor who works as servant usually treated like a slave by their master. The working circumstance as servant, produces tendency that the master is human and servant is animal. Master may hit the servant everytimes they like. According to original journal “Child labor and childhood behavioral and mental health problems in Ethiopia”, published by ILO, that physical violence aggravate health of child labor and produce result such as repeated headache, speech and sleep problems, excess fear, and even convulsion beside bad injury to them.
Lastri, fifteen years old, said “I don’t like my master, she always yelled at me, calling me ‘Tai’ and ‘anjing’. I’m annoyed, such uncomfortable situation. Why should i be treated like this? I can’t stay any longer receiving bad treatment from my master”, http://www.hrw.org/. These unappropriate treatment is one of many way humiliation of human being that occurred at the working place. Some employer think that servant, child labor, is human with low caste in society and may be called as everything they like. Though at UUD’45 says that every citizen is equal at law presence, humiliation to human being still continue. If it occur any longer it would make child labor (servant) feel inferior and causes problem to get along with others. Even some child servant have severeal of Phobia disease as the result of bad treatment.
Another case is happened to Dian, thirteen years of age, She had worked for her relatives for three months and earn Rp.1.000.000,- for one year. She forced to fulfill her master sexual needs. This sexual harassment including underage sexual violation caused irreversible damage such as unvirginity and erotophobia. Some recruiter of child labor deceive the child labor candidate, and transform child labor become child prostitute. According to information from TEMPO August 9 2006 that 70000 of Indonesian children become prostitute, this case happened mainly at Bali, Nusa Tenggara and other big cities in Indonesia. Some people call this child prostitute as “Ciblek (cilik-cilik betah melek)”. They must work during the night until dawn, fulfilling dirty lust of pedophilist, gay and lesbian. These activities reduce their stamina and produce some disorder to them. According to original journal “Child labor and childhood behavioral and mental health problems in Ethiopia”, published by ILO, that sexual harassment and violence usually produce permanent disorder to children. Some of them started to be pedophilist, gay and lesbian when they become adult, or tendency to imitate everything happened to them. Some of them infected AIDS, syphilis, cancroid and many sexual disease. Several of mental and psychological disorder may happened to them after receiving repeated sexual harassment such as erotophobia, Enuresis, Encopresis and separation anxiety, or combination of each disease.
Amount of violence happened to child labor (servant, prostitute) make us aware that some of our future generation are in dangerous situation. By being child labor, children can earn additional money for their family, but it cant guarantee their future lives. Some of them may have mental and psychological disorder and trauma. And if it is permanent disability , Child labor cannot earn for living when they are going adult.
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