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Purpose: This study aims to analyze legal protections for occupational safety and health (OSH) for workers in the informal sector within the Indonesian legal system and to identify normative gaps in the relevant regulations.


Research Method: This study employs a normative legal approach (doctrinal legal research) through legislative and conceptual analyses. The analysis was conducted through grammatical, systematic, and teleological interpretations of the 1945 Constitution, Law No. 1 of 1970, Law No. 13 of 2003 as amended by Law No. 6 of 2023, Law No. 24 of 2011, as well as relevant legal doctrines.


Results and Discussion: The research findings indicate that occupational safety and health (OSH) protections have a strong constitutional and legal foundation, but harmonization among regulations is not yet optimal because the regulations remain focused on formal employment relationships. This situation has resulted in the ineffective implementation of protections for various categories of workers in the informal sector.


Implications: These findings serve as the basis for regulatory harmonization, strengthening legal protection mechanisms, and expanding access to social security for workers in the informal sector.


Originality: This study proposes a legal framework for occupational safety and health (OSH) protection based on the classification of informal-sector workers as a model for more inclusive regulatory harmonization.

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occupational safety and health informal-sector workers legal protection regulatory harmonization labor law

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Bangsu, M. N. A., Brahmanto, D. E., & Shifa, A. (2026). Legal Protection for Occupational Safety and Health for Workers in the Informal Sector in Indonesia. Advances in Community Services Research, 4(2), 197–209. https://doi.org/10.60079/acsr.v4i2.967
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