Life inside Kerobokan - video
To many surfers, Bali’s Kerobokan jail is a place of creepy fascination. A repository of misery on a magical island, and the worst case scenario for those who tempted fate.
But what’s it really like in there?
ABC cameraman Matt 'Sheepy' Davis and Samatha Hawley recently spent a week inside Kerobokan talking to prisoners, including Bali Nine drug mule Matthew Norman.
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That was pretty eye opening, Norman and Chen sound like decent guys.
Quite moving footage actually
Yep nicely done FC and thanks for sharing Swellnet. Well worth a watch.
Yep nicely done FC and thanks for sharing Swellnet. Well worth a watch.
Cool documentary.
The picture they painted of the prison is much different than i had pictured in my head though.
Funny, a mate who just got out of there not long ago was staying with us the last coupla days. He gave me one of those Matthew Norman tee-os. Good quality fabric.
Was that a deterrent or a brochure. Some of it made Kerobokan seem more attractive than the rat race.
are flights included in this package?
Wharfjunkie & happyasS
Im kind of relieved it wasn't just me who got that impression from that video, i was thinking i was going crazy and maybe just blinded by my love for Indo.
It was a good little docco though.
interesting there was no footage of the crowded cells. might present a slightly different story. perhaps there was a ban on filming the actual conditions come dark hours.
I think it was well filmed, sensitive and tactful. It saddened me though, the thought of life in that place let alone a few months- fuck that. Any prison for that matter.
People don't appreciate freedom until it's taken away from them.
I agree Zen. I watched it and was thankful it wasn't Mad Max-style rioting and over the top posturing from inmates as it gave the filmmakers a chance to put a camera in front of guys that really, truly regret what they've done. That was powerful footage, and it was more likely to register with a would-be drug runner than comic agression.
not that aus/indo relations are anything strained at this point, but i suspect that indonesian authorities would well approve of this documentary.
Yep agree good doco
Excellent doco. Great sensitivity.
And in breaking news: Bali escape: Australian, three other men tunnel out of Kerobokan prison
"Indonesian officials have confirmed an Australian man is among four people who have escaped from Kerobokan Jail in Bali.
Jail Governor Tonny Nainggolan said Australian Shaun Davidson, from Perth, had less than three months left of his sentence to serve.
He had been convicted of immigration violations and given a one-year sentence.
Prison authorities discovered the men were missing this morning.
Officials said the escapees dug a tunnel from behind a prison clinic to an outside wall, approximately 12-18 metres long."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-19/four-prisoners-escape-in-bali/8631510
How crazy one year sentence and he digs out with only few months to go, if he does get caught now he is really screwed.
Aussie bloke had nearly finished his sentence...wtf...why would you escape
I think because when his sentence was up he was going to be extradited back to WA to face some pretty serious charges there.
"Davidson was imprisoned in Indonesia’s notorious Kerobokan jail last year for using another man’s passport and suggesting it was a “chubby” photograph of himself.
He aroused the suspicions of authorities when he signed into guesthouse in Kuta under a passport with the name Michael John Bayman. Davidson said he had lost his passport and found Mr Bayman’s at another hotel.
Davidson fled to Bali after being charged on drug offences in Perth. He managed to spend a year “partying and boxing” in Bali before being caught."
From the article below.
http://www.news.com.au/national/australian-man-shaun-davidson-reportedly...
http://www.smh.com.au/national/true-story-of-one-mans-stay-in-balis-hell...
http://kathrynbonella.com/media/san-fernando-valley-man-leaves-drug-trai...
Bali police not sure whether these blokes actually made it out and may be stuck in the tunnel ?