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act as a barrier to accessing education. 260 The Indonesian government must ensure that
migrant children have full access to schools, not just to English programs or other forms of
informal education that intergovernmental or nongovernmental agencies provide.
260 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), adopted November 20, 1989, GA Res. 44/25, annex, 44 UN GAOR Supp. (No.
49) at 167, UN Doc. A/44/49 (1989), entered into force September 2, 1990, ratified by Indonesia on September 5, 1990, art.
2.1; UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, “Non-discrimination in economic, social and cultural rights,”
General Comment No. 20, UN Doc. E/C.12/GC/20 (2009), para. 30 (“The ground of nationality should not bar access to
Covenant rights, e.g. all children within a State, including those with an undocumented status, have a right to receive
education and access to adequate food and affordable health care. The Covenant rights apply to everyone including nonnationals,
such as refugees, asylum-seekers, stateless persons, migrant workers and victims of international trafficking,
regardless of legal status and documentation.”)
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