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

A tombstone in the Sumba village of Kampung Raja Prailiu, Indonesia. (Photo: AFP)

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.

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