Indonesia on Vice

  • A New Episode of Our TV Show Is Airing Tonight

    Here at the VICE HQ we have a gigantic hourglass that we reset each week to count down the days until the next week's HBO show. It takes ten interns all heaving at once to flip it, and the chances of one of them getting pinned underneath or losing a limb is real high. It adds a good deal of suspense to the buildup though, and according to our in-house risk-assessment team, it's totally worth it. That is all to say that there is a new episode of VICE on HBO tonight. Full story

    2013 May 17 VICE Staff Stuff
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  • Joshua Oppenheimer and Indonesia's Murderous Playboys

    Director Joshua Oppenheimer traveled to Indonesia for a project that brought him in contact with people who survived the 1965 government massacre of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), when anywhere between 500,000 and 3 million PKI members were killed. Full story

    2013 Feb 26 Oliver Clasper Film
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  • Behind the Seams

    Junkie Shoes

    We travel to Indonesia to buy sandals made by former drug addicts. The shoes, called "junkies," are a part of a program started by the YAKITA Drug Treatment Center to help women suffering from addiction learn a marketable skill. Full story

    2012 Mar 28 Fashion
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  • Ex-Junkies Making Junkies

    Indonesian Drug Addicts Made Us Some Sandals Full story

    2012 Mar 27 Hannah Brooks Fashion
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