The Indonesian Labor Law prohibits the employment of children. In reality,
however, there are many children working as labors in the sand mine. This
particular issue must be resolved. Thus, this study discusses two problems. The
first one is the obstacles which have been hindering legal protection for child
labors in Sleman Regency’s sand mine. The second one is the government’s effort
to eliminate child labors from Sleman Regency’s sand mine. This is a juridical
empirical study which employs primary and secondary data. Therefore, it is a
literature review and field study. To analyze the data obtained, this study uses a
qualitative approach. The result of the study shows that there are many obstacles
to uphold the legal protection for child labors in Sleman’s sand mine and that the
government has enacted PPA-PKH (Reducing Child Labors to Support Family
Hope Program) to eliminate child labors in Sleman’s sand mine.