A Ukrainian travel documentary that trades tourist trails for the hidden side of distant lands, led by journalist Dmytro Komarov.
Season premiere
March 1, 2014
Episodes in the season
22
Whole season
16 h 30 min
March 1, 2014
Season fully aired
August 3, 2014
Episodes
22 episodes · 16 h 30 min
1Mar 20141E01
Indonesia. Episode 1
45 min
In the first episode of the new season of the program "World Inside Out", we will see with you the three most famous islands in the country. First we will fly to New Guinea and feel for ourselves how the descendants of cannibals greet guests. Papua is one of the wildest places on earth, but from there we will go to one of the most touristy - the legendary island of Bali, though we will see something that foreign guests would be better off not being shown at all - an ancient cemetery where people are not buried but simply laid under a sacred tree. The third stop is the most densely populated island on the planet - Java. It is there that we will experience, without exaggeration, the hellish profession of a sulfur miner, descending into the crater of an active volcano.
9Mar 20142E02
Indonesia. Expedition to the Island of New Guinea. Episode 2
45 min
In the second episode of the Indonesian season, the program World Inside Out begins a grand expedition to the island of New Guinea, to one of the most untouched places on earth. We will search for the wild Korowai tribe, which lives in the trees and literally only 30 years ago still practiced cannibalism. In order to learn how modern cannibals live, we will fly thousands of kilometers on old propeller planes, rattle along in off-road vehicles and spend two days sailing in unstable canoes deep into the island, to its most impassable places. We will meet civilized Korowai who already know what cars are and even how to use mobile phones. They will become our guides - together with them we will set off into the jungle and wade knee-deep in swamp toward the main goal - the tribes of wild people who still live at the tops of trees and, possibly, still eat people.
16Mar 20143E03
Indonesia. Expedition to the Island of New Guinea. Episode 3
45 min
We continue getting to know one of the wildest tribes in the world - the Korowai, in one of the most inaccessible regions of the planet - the island of New Guinea.
The Korowai are former cannibals who build their homes in tall trees. Together with them we will live by the laws of the tribe and the Stone Age and will even hear the confession of a cannibal's son: how best to cook human meat, and what it tastes like.
We will try to make the aborigines a little more modern - we will teach them to cook buckwheat, brush their teeth and wash their hair. For the first time in their lives they will see a computer, watch a film and get dressed. Moreover, in Ukrainian style - in our native vyshyvankas. In turn, the Korowai men will tell us about their traditions: they will teach us to tie their traditional dupanum leaf, which covers male dignity, and will make us try their main delicacy - sago grubs.
23Mar 20144E04
Indonesia. Toraja. Episode 4
45 min
In the fourth episode of the Indonesian season we will get to know a people whose name literally translates as "descendants of kings", the Toraja.
The "descendants of kings" live on the island of Sulawesi in their traditional tongkonan houses with roofs resembling boats, and all their lives they prepare for the most important event - death. We will tell why the bodies of deceased Toraja are not taken out of the house for years, and how the so-called formalin men make money from this. We will show how fantastically expensive and incredibly merry funerals take place, learn that the best gift at a funeral is a pig or a buffalo, visit a market where buffalo are sold for 20,000 dollars, and that is not even the limit... We will see how "tau tau" dolls are made - funerary figurines for the Toraja elite, a kind of posthumous wooden sculptures. We will end our trip not for the repose but for health - we will party at a Toraja wedding, which, to our surprise, will turn out to be not as merry and joyful as a funeral.
30Mar 20145E05
Indonesia. Expedition to the Island of Sulawesi. Episode 5
45 min
In the fifth episode of the Indonesian season we will continue getting to know the frightening and completely alien funerary traditions of the Toraja people on the island of Sulawesi: we will show ancient crypts that have become entertainment for tourists who like to wander among human bones, and we will see very unusual graves in which infants were buried - in tree trunks.
We will visit an ordinary Toraja house with a boat-shaped roof. Surprisingly, inside it resembles the most ordinary Soviet-era apartment block. From the Toraja we will move to the north of the island of Sulawesi to party at a merry Christian holiday - the birthday of a church, where people carelessly dance to the dance of the little ducklings familiar to each of us.
At the Tomohon city market we will learn what literally frightening cuisine means: we will see how the local delicacy - bats - is sold in the meat section.
And finally we will head into the jungle in search of an amazing creature - the smallest monkey on the planet, the tarsier.
6Apr 20146E06
Indonesia. Expedition to the Island of New Guinea. Episode 6
45 min
New adventures on the wildest and most inaccessible island on the planet - New Guinea. There are almost no roads in this place, so we will fly on local air minibuses - ancient, half-ruined planes with cracks in the fuselage. And the first thing we will do is explore Wamena - a small Indonesian town that can be called the capital of the Papuan tribes, and its inhabitants - civilized Papuans. And although most of the men - city dwellers - have long worn jeans, many just can't get out of the habit of walking barefoot, wearing only the koteka instead of clothes - a pumpkin sheath covering their manhood. The men adorn themselves with feathers and fangs.
In the vicinity of Wamena we will find ex-cannibals from the Dani tribe, who still live by the laws of their ancestors: here women have their finger joints chopped off if one of their close relatives dies, and deceased chiefs are turned into mummies, which are kept in the homes of ordinary people for hundreds of years.
An exclusive of the program The World Inside Out: a ceremony to which the Papuans have never before allowed foreigners or journalists: we will see a terrifying ritual - how a famous chief of one of the tribes of New Guinea is cremated.
13Apr 20147E07
Indonesia. Traditions and Daily Life of Primitive Aborigines. Episode 7
45 min
In the seventh episode of the Indonesian season we will continue to explore the traditions and daily life of the primitive aborigines from the distant island of New Guinea.
How do former cannibals live and have fun in the most civilized city of the region - Wamena? A grand festival awaits us, to which all the tribes of the area come to... wage war on each other. The Papuans dress up and apply war paint - just as their ancestors did when they went into battle. Now it is more of a war performance, but the aborigines genuinely run into the attack, shoot bows, throw spears and fall dead. They die for real, though, only pretend, but on the whole they play themselves, because not so long ago all of this was part of their everyday life.
We continue our special report - the search for ancient mummies of the Baliem Valley. Another unique find awaits us - the mummy of a chief from the Dani tribe that is more than 400 years old! Exclusive of the program: how to restore a mummified chief and with the help of what technological tricks the Papuans preserve these sacred relics. The aborigines have never shown anything like this to anyone!
Only in the program The World Inside Out - a Papuan party in Ukrainian style! Together with the aborigines from the Dani tribe we will cook a real Ukrainian borscht. The Papuans, who are used to eating only sweet potatoes, will for the first time in their lives peel carrots and beets, and cry from onions. But we still have to find all these products at the market...
20Apr 20148E08
Indonesia. The Baliem Valley. Episode 8
45 min
In the eighth episode of the Indonesian season, the program The World Inside Out continues to travel around the most exotic island on the planet - New Guinea - and to study the traditions of the Dani tribe living in the Baliem Valley. How do the Papuans grow clothing? We will harvest crops in the koteka garden and learn how to make the traditional male attire "koteka" - a pumpkin sheath for the penis.
How does one become a warrior of the Dani tribe? The Papuans will turn the host into a real aborigine - they will teach him how to paint his face correctly, shoot a bow and handle a spear - exactly as their ancestors did hundreds and thousands of years ago, and, of course, they will stage a grand battle so that everyone knows what it means to wage war the Papuan way. We continue our special report - the search for ancient mummies of the Baliem Valley. Another unique find awaits us - the mummy of a chief from the Dani tribe that is more than 400 years old! Exclusive of the program: how to restore a mummified chief and with the help of what technological tricks the Papuans preserve these sacred relics. The aborigines have never shown anything like this to anyone!
27Apr 20149E09
Indonesia. The Island of Java. Episode 9
45 min
In the ninth episode of the Indonesian season, The World Inside Out begins to explore the most densely populated island in the world - Java. First of all we will go to the capital of Indonesia - Jakarta - to experience for ourselves an extreme, fun and, most importantly, free way to improve one's health - electric shock treatment on railway tracks!
After an evening session of rail therapy we will move to the east of the island of Java, where we will learn how to make money out of mud and try one of the strangest dishes in the world - pies made of earth!
Exclusive of the program The World Inside Out: the tree man. One of the most terrifying and inexplicable stories in the world, which is hard to believe. We will hear the confession of a man with a terrible disease: his arms and legs have turned into roots, and his whole body is covered with warts...
4May 201410E10
Indonesia. Meru Betiri Nature Reserve. Episode 10
45 min
We continue to explore the most densely populated island in the world, Java, but today we move from the concrete jungle to the real jungle. Our goal is one of the largest nature reserves in the eastern part of Java - Meru Betiri.
In the reserve on the shore of the Indian Ocean we will witness a unique spectacle - giant sea turtles laying eggs, we will meet a turtle named Ukraina, learn how Indonesian rangers protect turtle offspring from predators and release 250 little turtle hatchlings into the ocean.
And then the south of the island of Java awaits us, the city of Yogyakarta and the most unusual pasta factory in the world. One of its main employees is a real bull. That's the Indonesian answer to the Italians.
11May 201411E11
Indonesia. Expedition into the Jungles of the Island of New Guinea. Episode 11
45 min
In episode 11, The World Inside Out returns once again to one of the wildest places on Earth to continue the difficult and dangerous expedition into the jungles of the island of New Guinea and the search for primitive people who live in trees - the Korowai tribe.
An incredible meeting awaits us - with an aborigine who has never in his life seen a white man!
We will try to live like real men - the Korowai - by the laws of the Stone Age: we will learn how to obtain bread from the trunk of the sago palm and gather the most favorite Korowai delicacy - fat non worms.
And the most terrifying thing - we will have to survive a party of former cannibals, at which we are literally forced to eat exotic palm bread with live worms!
We will continue our journey through New Guinea in another part of the island - the famous Baliem Valley. The continuation of the special report about the ancient mummies of Papua awaits us. Today we will finally find the most ancient and rare of them.
18May 201412E12
Indonesia. Getting to Know the Legendary Baliem Valley. Episode 12
45 min
In the twelfth episode of the Indonesian season, "The World Inside Out" concludes its exploration of the legendary Baliem Valley and its capital, the town of Wamena. As a final stop, we take another look at the unique capital market, where people actively trade not only fruits and vegetables but also dead protected species -- birds of paradise and cuscuses -- as well as bladed weapons and legal drugs. Alcohol is banned in Papua, so to relax, Papuans chew betel -- a narcotic chew made from the fruit of the areca palm; it clouds the mind and stains the gums blood-red.
After a walk through the market, we continue our exclusive special report on the unique mummies of the island of New Guinea and head into the dense jungle to find another relic that the Papuans miraculously managed to save from destruction. It was restored and placed in a kind of glass mausoleum that preserves the four-hundred-year-old relic of the descendants. And on the way to the village where this unusual mausoleum is located, we come across a political party office that is at once a home for its staff, a pigsty, and the center of political kitchen in the Baliem Valley. Campaigners working in the Baliem backwoods explain how their politicians win the love of voters and what Ukrainian and Papuan politics have in common.
25May 201413E13
Indonesia. Sulawesi and Kalimantan. Bat Hunting. Diamond Mining. Episode 13
45 min
In episode 13, "The World Inside Out" visits two famous Indonesian islands at once -- Sulawesi and Kalimantan. The people of North Sulawesi love to eat bats. We meet the most famous bat hunter and see how he sets his nets for winged prey. But we won't let our catch go to the market or the frying pan -- we release all the captured animals back into the wild.
We come to Kalimantan for a reason: diamonds. But before a brilliant can appear, a rough diamond must be found. Dmytro Komarov tries his hand at the profession of a Kalimantan diamond miner. Will he manage to find a diamond and rise from rags to riches? Watch episode 13 of the Indonesian season.
1Jun 201414E14
Indonesia. Kalimantan - Gold Mines. Bali - Cricket Fights. Episode 14
45 min
In episode 14 of "The World Inside Out," incredible adventures and excitement await us. We head back to Indonesia's most "precious" island -- Kalimantan, where we mined diamonds in the previous installment. Today a precious job awaits us too -- we reach real gold mines, befriend a family of artisanal prospectors, and, in the best traditions of gold rush films, spend two days in a row standing waist-deep in water, washing tons of sand from the riverbed, with a chance to hit a real golden jackpot.
We'll have another chance to get rich and get our nerves tingling too. From Kalimantan we head to the famous tourist island of Bali to visit places that aren't written about in guidebooks and that tours don't take you to. Entertainment for real men: risk, excitement, police, doping, and big money at stake -- an illegal tournament where crickets fight for big money.
8Jun 201415E15
Indonesia. A Unique Report from the Island of Java. Episode 15
45 min
In episode 15, "The World Inside Out" continues to try on professions shrouded in romance and myth. In previous programs, Dmytro Komarov already tested himself as a diamond miner and a gold prospector on the island of Kalimantan; today it's the turn of a unique report from the island of Java, where he will extract black gold -- oil. Hard to believe, but Javanese "sheikhs" still extract oil from the bowels of the earth using an ancient method -- completely without modern technology, practically by hand. The sheikhs, and especially their wives, adore luxurious accessories -- for example, elite bags made of snake skin. In the central part of Java, we see where and how reptiles are turned into wallets. First we head to a snake slaughterhouse, where the animals are turned into raw material, and then we visit a factory where snake skin is used to create symbols of wealth and luxury.
22Jun 201416E16
Indonesia. The Island of Bali. Episode 16
45 min
Episode 16 of "The World Inside Out" is dedicated to the legendary, incredible, and mysterious island of Bali. Our journey across the island of gods and demons begins with one of the most important events in a Balinese person's life -- a frightening, painful, yet stunningly beautiful initiation rite: tooth filing.
A citizen of the world. A man without a passport or a place of residence. We meet a man who is crazy in the good sense: he bought a yacht for 1,000 dollars and set off on a journey around the world. Alone. What does a person think when he is sure he is dying and won't wake up in the morning? Unique footage from Serhii Morozov and his stories of how he said goodbye to life during a terrifying storm in the middle of the ocean. A culinary journey to Bali: only here can shrimp be drunk. A thrilling and very fun cooking master class awaits us on how to prepare a dish that is literally called drunken shrimp.
29Jun 201417E17
Indonesia. A Journey Across the Island of Gods and Demons - Bali. Episode 17
45 min
In episode 17 of the Indonesian season, we continue our journey across the island of gods and demons -- Bali. Today we are in for perhaps one of the most impressive, shocking, and grandiose spectacles on the island -- the mass cremation ceremony. Only the Balinese know how to turn a sad event into a grandiose celebration with dancing and merriment.
Balinese traditions are so unique that they can only be understood with the help of an orientalist, so we visit the best expert on Indonesia in the CIS. Mykhailo Tsyhanov shows how to turn your life into a dream -- living and working in the tropics all year round, renting a luxurious villa in Bali for the price of a Khrushchev-era apartment in Kyiv.
And for dessert -- a cultural program. For the first time in the history of Balinese theater, it's not a Balinese but a Ukrainian who takes the stage! Dmytro Komarov plays the role of a half-demon, half-priest in one of the most important scenes of the Ramayana.
6Jul 201418E18
Indonesia. A Journey Around the Island of Bali. Episode 18
45 min
In episode 18 of the Indonesian season, World Inside Out will continue traveling around Bali.
Today we will visit the village of Jimbaran in the south of the island and a unique Balinese entertainment in which buffaloes play the main role.
It is these animals that since the 13th century have given the Balinese the brightest and most spectacular holiday on the island: the famous buffalo races.
Dmytro Komarov will try on the role of a buffalo racer: how will the extreme buffalo Formula 1 end? After the dangerous buffalo races we will relax on the ocean shore. Together with a Ukrainian who has found not only a second home in Bali, but also his dream job.
13Jul 201419E19
Indonesia. An Exclusive Interview with Barack Obama's Nanny, and Unknown Facts from His Childhood. Episode 19
45 min
The unknown years of Obama. Many have surely read that as a child Barack Obama lived in Indonesia for several years. But the details that the program World Inside Out learned in Jakarta are known to only a few. Dmytro Komarov will visit the Indonesian "white" house of the future president and meet people who know firsthand what Barry Soetoro was like - for that is what Barack Obama was called in childhood.
A schoolteacher of one of the most influential people on the planet will tell how Obama amused himself in childhood, whom he liked to pull by the hair and whom to poke with a pencil. A classmate will share a secret - what nickname little Barry had, and a school friend, a well-known Jakarta lawyer, will tell about his childhood friend what no one has told about him yet.
20Jul 201420E20
A Treehouse. The Korowai. And a Film About a Film. Indonesia. Episode 20
45 min
In episode 20 we will show the rarest and most exclusive material from the expedition to Indonesia. The wildest and least studied part of our planet awaits us -- the island of New Guinea. We will do what no one from the television world of the post-Soviet space has done before: together with the Korowai tribe of former cannibals we will build a real primitive skyscraper in a tree. It will be a very dangerous, grueling and difficult, but unforgettable work week at a height of 30 meters. And also, for the first time in the history of the program World Inside Out, we will reveal our television secrets, and in the "film about a film" section we will show what was happening on the other side of the lens in the jungles of Papua. You have never seen anything like this!
27Jul 201421E21
Bali, Jakarta and Surabaya. Indonesia. Episode 21
45 min
In episode 21 of the Indonesian season we complete our acquaintance with the island of gods and demons - Bali. To see the legendary island from a bird's-eye view, we will book a paragliding tour. True, its finale will turn out to be very unexpected - 40 seconds after takeoff the engine suddenly began to sputter suspiciously. And then it stalled...
How the extreme entertainment will end - watch in the new episode of the program. So that the Gods of Bali would be more favorable to us, we will go to the healer famous throughout the world - the very one who became the hero of the Hollywood film "Eat Pray Love" with Julia Roberts in the lead role. Surprisingly, the sorcerer actually turned out to be just a clown who, thanks to his popularity, makes money from tourists.
Having charged ourselves with the positivity and energy of Bali, we will again fly to the island of Java, whose first stop will be the capital of Indonesia - Jakarta. Here, after a short tour of the modern metropolis, we will learn to walk on... water. It is in Jakarta that the dirtiest rivers on the Planet are located - the Citarum and the Ciliwung. You have definitely never seen anything like this!
The next stop is the Javanese metropolis of Surabaya, famous for a Soviet submarine and ... a red-light district.
And to conclude the episode - the most interesting part. In Jakarta, Dmytro Komarov will become a geography teacher in that very school and even in that very classroom where in the late 1960s little Barry Soetoro studied, whom today we know as Barack Obama.
3Aug 201422E22
Indonesia. The Mandarin Plantations of Bali and the Jurassic Park on Komodo Island. Episode 22
45 min
In episode 22 of the Indonesian season, World Inside Out will visit two exotic islands - Bali and Komodo. On Bali we are in for hellish heat, backbreaking loads and a pittance wage. We will show how our favorite New Year fruits are harvested on the mandarin plantations. We will go to a real Jurassic Park, to Komodo Island, to visit the prehistoric lizards that appeared on Earth 500 million years ago and still hunt people. This is dragon territory. A place where bloodthirsty monsters terrorize the islanders and come for new victims. The stories of people who escaped from the jaws of dragons only by a miracle.
And finally we will show the brightest moments of our Indonesian expedition.
