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Child labor is a term for employing children under 18 years of age. Child labor is the exploitation of a child for work usually on a low salary without other guarantees. The background of child labor due to poverty causes children to have to work to support their families. This research uses descriptive qualitative method, seeks to describe the causes of children working and the impact of children working. The research was carried out in Indramayu Regency, Sukabumi Regency, Ponorogo Regency, Malang Regency, Central Lombok Regency as the locations that contributed a lot of migrant workers abroad. The number of respondents was 150 children working in the informal sector, including migrant workers. The background of workers comes from poor families with low parental education levels. The findings of the cause of working children are parental poverty due to low parental education levels, lack of work skills, low income. The impact of working children experiencing exploitation includes 70% working more than 9 hours, getting wages but being cut without the child's knowledge, getting wages but not in accordance with the minimum wage standard, the promised work is not in accordance with reality (67%), loss of communication with parents 83%, and the occurrence of violence in the workplace such as discomfort, coercion, threats, prone to sexual harassment (50%). The impact of working children has a contribution to their family as much as 80%. Recommendations need to prevent the exploitation of child labor through empowering poor families in pockets of poverty. Preventive protection measures mean that the state, government, local governments, communities, families, and parents or guardians are fully responsible and obliged to implement child protection.    

South Sulawesi is a province with a high prevalence of stunting, which is around 30.5%. Various at- tempts have been made by the government to overcome the problem of stunting through various poli- cies and regulations as well as through a number of interventions. This paper aims to describe the policies and factors that cause the high incidence of stunting in the South Sulawesi region. The Pro- vincial Government of South Sulawesi has made efforts to formulate various regulations and pro- grams in the form of interventions, both specific and sensitive. Specific interventions are carried out by the health sector by focusing on the First 1000 Days of Life (HPK) program, while sensitive inter- ventions include providing access to clean water and sanitation. Apart from health, socio-economic factors are also known to have an effect on stunting, such as problems with poverty, education levels, and family income. Stunting prevention requires cross-sector cooperation and is carried out in an in- tegrated manner. The policies and regulations that exist at the central level must also be followed up with follow-up actions at the local level up to the village level and involve not only the health sector but also other related sectors. Community-based response systems involving other stakeholders need to be improved, because the high awareness of the community on the importance of balanced nutri- tion, pre-marital education, parenting, sanitation and environmental hygiene are a series of efforts to reduce stunting rates in South Sulawesi.    

Child labor is a term for employing children under 18 years of age. Child labor is the exploitation of a child for work usually on a low salary without other guarantees. The background of child labor due to poverty causes children to have to work to support their families. This research uses descriptive qualitative method, seeks to describe the causes of children working and the impact of children working. The research was carried out in Indramayu Regency, Sukabumi Regency, Ponorogo Regency, Malang Regency, Central Lombok Regency as the locations that contributed a lot of migrant workers abroad. The number of respondents was 150 children working in the informal sector, including migrant workers. The background of workers comes from poor families with low parental education levels. The findings of the cause of working children are parental poverty due to low parental education levels, lack of work skills, low income. The impact of working children experiencing exploitation includes 70% working more than 9 hours, getting wages but being cut without the child's knowledge, getting wages but not in accordance with the minimum wage standard, the promised work is not in accordance with reality (67%), loss of communication with parents 83%, and the occurrence of violence in the workplace such as discomfort, coercion, threats, prone to sexual harassment (50%). The impact of working children has a contribution to their family as much as 80%. Recommendations need to prevent the exploitation of child labor through empowering poor families in pockets of poverty. Preventive protection measures mean that the state, government, local governments, communities, families, and parents or guardians are fully responsible and obliged to implement child protection.    

South Sulawesi is a province with a high prevalence of stunting, which is around 30.5%. Various at- tempts have been made by the government to overcome the problem of stunting through various poli- cies and regulations as well as through a number of interventions. This paper aims to describe the policies and factors that cause the high incidence of stunting in the South Sulawesi region. The Pro- vincial Government of South Sulawesi has made efforts to formulate various regulations and pro- grams in the form of interventions, both specific and sensitive. Specific interventions are carried out by the health sector by focusing on the First 1000 Days of Life (HPK) program, while sensitive inter- ventions include providing access to clean water and sanitation. Apart from health, socio-economic factors are also known to have an effect on stunting, such as problems with poverty, education levels, and family income. Stunting prevention requires cross-sector cooperation and is carried out in an in- tegrated manner. The policies and regulations that exist at the central level must also be followed up with follow-up actions at the local level up to the village level and involve not only the health sector but also other related sectors. Community-based response systems involving other stakeholders need to be improved, because the high awareness of the community on the importance of balanced nutri- tion, pre-marital education, parenting, sanitation and environmental hygiene are a series of efforts to reduce stunting rates in South Sulawesi.