Inside Indonesia's slave island: 'I want my children to be free'

PARIS — Two hours from the tourist beaches of Bali, slavery is alive and well on the Indonesian island of Sumba, where people are still born into bondage. They work from dawn to dusk without pay, are passed on in marriage and are sometimes beaten and raped by their masters. Yet most are resigned to their fate because their status “cannot be wiped away”, as one young slave — or “ata” — Kanisius Kanyali Hambarita told AFP. READ: ‘Tortured’ Indonesian maid listed on Time’s top 100 Slavery has been illegal in what is now Indonesia for more than 160 years, […]...

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