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In 2018, the Government carried out an
employment survey in the oil palm sector. 2

95.7%

0.8% The vast majority are National Action Plan on Forced Labour (2021-2025)
employed workers
(95.7%) and only 4.3%

of workers (a total of are unpaid family
4900 workers aged 5 labourers.
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years and over) in the
oil palm sector were in
forced labour. 3

The majority of the those found to be in
forced labour were plantation workers
tending and harvesting the crop but
forced labour was also found among
80% manuring workers and truck drivers
transporting the crop.

Moreover, the prevalence rate
Most are male (around 80%) is also significantly higher
and in the age group 25-44 among non-Malaysian citizen,
at 1.44%, than among
years old (65%) though a Malaysian citizens, at 0.1%.
significant proportion,
10.6%, are children aged 5-
The forced labour prevalence
rate was found to be
significantly higher in
Sarawak, at 1.3%, than in
Peninsular Malaysia and
Sabah, at 0.6% respectively.
2 Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities
(2018) The Employment survey in Oil Palm Plantations,
Malaysia 2018 https://www.mpic.gov.my/mpi/images/01-
Bahagian/PSA/MPIC_EmploymentSurvey2018_FINAL.pdf Further, while workers in the informal economy and
3 Note that some of the victims of forced labour, i.e. those undocumented workers are often at greater risk of
aged from 5 to 17 years, are therefore also victims of the forced labour, documented workers may also end
Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFCL) as defined in ILO
Convention 182 on the WFCL. up in forced labour.