The textile industry is one of the 10 leading industrial product commodities in Indonesia. This makes the textile industry play an important role in Indonesia, because the textile industry can create jobs, and play a role in meeting clothing needs, and contribute to Indonesia's foreign exchange, as well as encouraging economic growth. Indonesia is a country with an integrated textile industry. Integrated industry involves upstream to downstream industries in producing final products, which include fibers and yarns, fabrics and garments. Indonesia is in seventh place in world exporters of textile products with a contribution of 2.5%. The Indonesian textile industry has quite a lot of internal factors that have the potential to influence competitiveness and need to be resolved immediately effectively and efficiently.

This research aims to examine the legal protection provided by law to a child who becomes a worker in protecting and maintaining the legal rights and growth and development rights of a child. As well as providing knowledge for a child who will become a worker and for a business owner in employing a child into the workforce so that both parties understand their respective rights and obligations. This research was conducted in order to contribute to the legal protection of a child so that the growth and development of children can be guaranteed and protected properly and is intended to be useful for readers and add insight that is so important in applying special treatment for a child who becomes a worker.