WATCH: Inside Indonesia’s YouTube village

Villagers swap their traditional jobs for the big earnings of online video stars.


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Kasegeran is a remote town in Java that most Indonesians would struggle to find on a map.

But it’s also home to an unlikely collection of emerging YouTubers, as villagers swap their traditional jobs for the big earnings of online video stars.

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