SLAVE PARADISE
On a typically tropical afternoon in Canggu — the surfing and tourism favourite on Bali’s west coast — a scene plays out that perfectly sums up everything that is wrong with the world. As wealthy tourists toast the day with cocktails, beers and coconuts, a procession of ashen-faced Indonesian women trudge home following a day of hard labour at a nearby Singaporean-owned, luxury resort construction site. Their faces are hollow with exhaustion, many having worked seven days a week for that past three months, for which they’re paid around USD$8 a day.
“The hardest (part) is I get so tired, sometimes I cannot handle it anymore. I just crash down and cry. When that happens I get flashbacks of how sad my life is,” explains *Made, 35, who was orphaned as a three-year-old.
The workers live in makeshift
