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Indonesia's 'YouTube Village' banks on homegrown video stars / V000_9EZ78H
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Siswanto was a down-on-his-luck mechanic until his improbable pivot to internet videos turned his neighbours into stars and vaulted his poor farming community into the limelight as Indonesia's "YouTube Village".
The rags-to-riches tale begins four years ago as he struggled to keep his auto shop business afloat in Kasegeran -- a remote town in Java that most Indonesians would struggle to find on a map. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES