Life Inside Bali's Infamous Kerobokan Prison | Foreign Correspondent

[Music] Bali Indonesia over 4 million tourists flock here every year chasing Sun surf and tropical perfection the Hindu Islands captured Indonesia's holiday market decades ago and continues to grow but it's not a paradise for everyone almost as well known as Barley's beaches is korabik Angele 4 hectares behind razor wire in the center of this tourist mecca for the first time ever her television crew has been granted unfettered access inside over the next week we'll embed ourselves here and bring you a day in the life behind these walls [Music] [Music] my name is Mathew Norman and I'm a prisoner here in Oregon prison in Bali and I have a life sentence [Music] arrested in a Bali hotel room in 2005 at 18 he was the youngest member of the infamous drug trafficking group the barley nine he spent his entire adult life behind these walls yeah nobody wake up and about around 6:00 a.m. Australia I'll go downstairs and took the kettle on thank you big cover coffee [Music] so soon his head counts done another door for the next 10 hours the male prisoners are now free to roam the prison grounds [Music] announcements from the loudspeakers are constant when I walked up in a cell 24 hours a day I just keep my days as busy as possible Norman starts most of his weekdays working inside the prisoner run art studios here he manages a screen printing operation these studios were set up by Australian Barry nine members Myron sukumaran and Andrew Chan who were executed by a firing squad in 2015 and that was very tough after so many years it passed and all the good that they had done in here I just thought that they might have had their sentence commuted to a life sentence I picked up a lot more responsibilities now that they're not here so we've started our own brand court Redemption because I do believe prisoners can change that's what it's all about he's bettering yourself so that you can get back outside [Music] sorry amou linebacker geodesy lay the to town sorry boo smell Andhra to slop include amar Joshi acai acai to karana be a MOOC into a balloon part out for da ma Kali Yuga saya tidak a hunt and an opportunity a while mad Astra o Patmos is the prison's longest-serving guard Puccini hospital control living Familia para para Anna hello Peter yoga ya Mon dream Aria welcome the opposite way we are cognizant Gita the apprentice at any given time Patmos is one of just eight unarmed prison guards unusual for patrol the grounds and four are posted in the watchtowers that's about a hundred and sixty male prisoners per gosh yeah that's what to see Civitas begorrah was up to see it was buggy god yoga yes I had to top the setup block on dugas comma into T door Maggie Nara piranesi knee comity dunya Kaneesha policy Chara ok ok saga Tamiya Maserati Sydney karna yeah pneumonia you got the signal hopper capacity Sonya built to incarcerate just over 320 male prisoners roughly 1300 men live here at the time of our filming since it was first built in 1979 the prison infrastructure has continually changed the prisoners are responsible for the upkeep of the cells as well as the manicured grounds [Music] David Fox is a former war correspondent and journalist with Reuters he was sentenced to seven months jail for possessing just over nine grams of hashish this is my personal space here you try and do what you can with it you know you make it homely as you can that's a nice picture of my beautiful nieces calendar taking off the day so when I go and I'm very proud of that that's my negative drug test from the day I've been in here reading materials and that sort of thing you know you can see it was my head touches the wall here my feet touch the wall on that side it's uh it ever so humble there's no place like home I guess [Music] often referred to his United Nations of prisoners there are just over a hundred foreigners from 26 countries inside kurakin a spot in the foreigners block is a privilege that comes foremost at a cost $100 up front and $25 a week having money here buys you space you know some bargains and Russians and Germans and Europe Iranians like Australians Kiwis all you know every nationality and so there's a there is a little bit more um you know a cultural tension I'd say but uh but people you know we everybody knows the constraints that they're living under and so they have to have to get along DeRosa ya know pink on the giant camera no phone no drag if you have problem you can fix problem don't make you travel again okay thank you Indonesians pack the remaining cells each named after iconic Valley locations 78% of prisoners have been convicted on drug charges lamasery saputra boomer Papa tone that's narco bar Pokemon sap2000 Amul our hero is the leader of cellblock Alaska - [Music] listen to me Chris Warner Abu Saleh diadem winner sober and I didn't burn the Peconic attached under alumina and iron Angeles in a capacitor Stanley Martin Poole on patrol to respond unison around listening circuit Allah Allah will happen to the jury anaconda cotton kadamba my god there is versapoints producer da da most agencies in korabik own range from 20 years to a few months a handful are here for life [Music] my name is CJ and Australian in hoboken jail and I'm serving a life sentence for already 12 years because of traffic drug trafficking singer Shane was arrested in the same hotel room as Matthew Norman in 2005 do you feel every moment of those 12 years does it feel like 12 years - sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't when you're stressed oh it feels like forever but when you are more positive it feels fast every day goes by really fast every day I just come here and then I trained fellow inmates here for them to learn like silver handicrafts it helps me a lot to deal with my time in here because we are doing something instead of wasting time and wasting life after 12 years Norman and shin at the last of the so-called Valley 9 to be behind bars at Carrabba can they share a cell with one other inmate inside the central prison tower once known as Supermax so coming in here we have sleeping quarters yeah for seeing myself so C's here yeah it's where he sleeps and he's got his lamp and he's an alarm clock he's got to wake up early yeah good her bathroom here so they've got no hot water so it's mostly bucket showers where we put up this contraption here to have a bit of a shower but the pressures never strong for a good shower and we got a typical Indonesian squatting toilet so it gives the legs a good workout yeah prison who built this before I was here well it's not the easiest planner no it's not definitely get you sick yeah okay for me you know it's a bit it's neat small for me so I got a keep pretty crouched yeah but this is your this is your personal private space yeah this is my little piece of paradise sometimes you just have a bad day you just just want to stay to yourself so yeah this is my little area here and where I find peace so you've just got the one feature in you yeah just me my dad my father was here at 2007 right two years ago Matthew's father Michael moved to Bali he comes twice a week on Mondays and Fridays [Music] [Music] [Music] today he's bought a bag of instant coffee [Music] the gnomon one bill too now there one but I think when setting are we in the company you okay everyday every time I see my dad in the visit or catch up with family when that year I just I feel regret every time I see them just through suicide guilty for them I committed the crime they kind of have to do with the consequences as well there's nothing Bunji today did you say to your your daddy I'm sorry just said I'm sorry I put them in that position and it's water if you keep accepting your apology I think so [Music] once a month the prison provides another freedom by opening its doors to families every month this is one more day for everyone kids come for work the family father or mother here yeah but I really happy today's Balinese Manoir Hwang Bora atre was child a year ago for possessing point three grams of methamphetamine only enough for personal use he was sentenced to four years and three months jail the newest American command with mr. lemarchal yeah [Music] [Music] I miss family time the most I never I made that never made the most of it back home family would go out I'd stay at home when I was a bit older I didn't want to join up with the family and when I'd go out with mates and party things like that so I really an elected my family a lot so I miss them the most a really typical traditional Chinese style I was like that is the boss my mom is the chef and I'm the only child so they are really strict or sometimes when they are too strict you will bow against them and maybe they'd have you to go left you just wanted all right just to make them angry so what were you asked to do pretty much just bring a package back from Indonesia to Australia betting really go into details as to what it was exactly but a package I presumed it was drugs but at the time I didn't even think about the consequences whatsoever and how much were you promised $15,000 which is a lot to an eighteen year old but when you look back at it now this episode its peanuts it's nothing so what were you gonna do with that fifteen thousand bucks only black car yeah and just wasted probably knowing me back then wasted I was actually try to saving up for go to the aviation college because I was at a grudge with my dad and the first thing he said to me when he found out I want to do the aviation collie he's are you crazy where do we get that kind of money I had a meltdown on him that time right you never do what I love fine I'll do it myself or find it myself I just love love the school loves the feeling when you're flying you feel free when you're falling and in the sky and you see far away you see everything I'm embarrassed by the name of the barley nine because I'm embarrassed of what we've done it sucks it's in the name of the moon you came up with and no one knows me as me I'm not Matthew Norman I'm just Matthew barley nine that's not my name [Music] with this we tighten on volume yeah it's like my younger brother we were just a kid when we were arrested we didn't think about the consequences [Music] like you did to me please you miss your job which do you like more to say [Laughter] are you hungry we gonna the reason why the inmates in need here is because they did not they don't have a skill Matt was the first one who did the English class so it was a great success a lot of people watching learn English so they're exceeding the church we have English pass we have fast [Applause] [Applause] [Music] many Norman in particular he found him quite inspirational and in you know keeping yourself occupied and time passes quickly when you do that it really does I don't think this any romanticism will Paradise Lost or anything like that occur it is what you make it what do you make of it if you come in here and with the right attitude your guard up here probably bettered but if you come in here with the negatives and mindsets I think the darkest hole for many inside is drugs we're told that crystal meth or shabu is the drug of choice to escape reality behind bars yet for most spirituality helps them through their lengthy sentences all major faiths are followed inside Curtin while open Kitab a Desilu red alga MA it's at the top you see pacifism really better but that unicum the top guitar is a possible [Music] I think it's a definite of cliche prison inmates finding God and things like that I think in here when you got absolutely nothing you open yourself up to everything and by going to church and reading the Bible I found peace in that and I still do I feel that I've become a better person because of going to church and being positive it's definitely helped me a lot [Music] [Music] nama saya libertine Tierney Rene Pinnell put int sarracenia impurity gotta hole and I said were found with methamphetamine yanti is one of the hundred and forty five female prisoners incarcerated in Caribou kannada malayalam tamil parvati but i see another house under cyber salah a two-month window in Semarang to autobús de mañana past even Cindy here in April the women's wing was segregated and previous interaction with the men cut back this was home to Chappelle Corby for nearly a decade and is where Sarah Connor is serving out her five-year sentence our crew is not granted access to film inside the female cells pastilla offer one offer look earnest a PokeMart opening an anomalous or on heparin pitten pitten was the after linen bike Manny Pacquiao's I'm really loose Karen cross this empanada car upon askin forget second to pass a Hamas up to keep active once awake yanti helps laid anaerobic session for the female and male inmates it's a rare moment for the women to not only leave their compound but to interact with the men tomorrow a spear some wounds linear and upon demand amanda de la bufa steeping in the morning and our engineers and business but they about the money money same fema of the more say ellos none that's good Eugene again [Music] one of the unique aspects of this prison is the huge amount of open space that the male prisoners at least get to roam through throughout the day and with that comes a huge expanse of sky giving them a sense of relative freedom yes bogeyman camera so you got really poppin on contumelia alarm it we had Mata Hari yak Italian long it or some katana Baloo was making monkey Brian kita you go visual of a bar in here the guards and prisoners communicates they want to make the jail of like a big school camp or a big campsite for people for DISA mistake the prisoners here know if they push the flexible boundaries too far the relative freedoms they have could be lost solitary confinement nicknamed the rat cell is one such punishment but the largest deterrent is transfer often down in the early morning to one of Indonesia's other island prisons I don't know it could be the Bali Balinese culture somehow it works you don't have prisoners scaling the walls nothing's out of control as the afternoon to sins the male prisoners emerge to exercise and unwind knowing they'll be behind bars again soon go do a lot of sport they didn't get as much rest as I need to be fun in the sport every day in the nights I struggle to sleep that's when you mind says doing backflips if I was to say to you my wife that's it that's it looking forever how does that feel to you it's scary it puts a shiver down your spine but if life is life I'm not gonna I'm not gonna give up laws around the world are forever changing we didn't know what tomorrow brings [Music] Tony nan Golan has been the jails governor since late 2016 in May he sought sentence reductions for Norman and chen from the Indonesian president he knows that they could die in prison do you have sympathy for Matthew normal lisamurphy sanity party Ya Allah salah satu our cabina an Y uno de Brasil Santo Brazil s buggy manusia sm-liiga young do a negotiation if the syrup an custom to do booboo one yes a my culinary normative who does it Chan [Music] emancipate yourself from well it's 5:30 p.m. shutdown time freedom to move around has come to an end energy [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] yes people change if people have looked at us since the beginning until now they will see the great change we form a naive stubborn high teenager rock 20 and then we change into somebody who is more responsible who have already have militated and reformed and also helping other people to reform get me home Oh so [Music] wrong bitch Oh son [Music] Brenna's doors get shut and locked you can see a gap you can see this bit of metal that goes across which is the hinge of the lock and you just think to yourself well I'd done [Music] you

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Keywords: Australia, Bali, Indonesia, Drugs, Drug Trafficking, Kerobokan, Bali Nine, Schapelle Corby, Life Sentence, Prison, Jail, Murder, Paradise, War on Drugs, Execution, Crime, Documentary, Incarceration, Locked up, Abroad, Crystal Meth, bali kerobokan prison, bali, bali drugs, bali prison, bali prison documentary, bali australian drug execution, indonesia drug smuggler, indonesian prison documentary, prison doco, VICE, foreign correspondent indonesia, foreign correspondent bali, drugs in bali

Id: DU37axiV2Iw

Length: 32min 9sec (1929 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 12 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/Initzuriel]

That was unexpected! Last sentence from Chen was pretty hard hitting. Thanks for sharing!

[u/myepicdemise]

If you guys need a refresher on the Bali 9: 2 were initially executed, 4 were transferred to other prisons due to misbehaviour, leaving 3 in this prison, and only 2 of the 3 were interviewed.

[u/TylerJim]

Wow. Thanks.

[u/Hugh_Jorgan_]

Fkn drugs. Hope these boys get home.