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By Indonesia correspondent Samantha Hawley

Captured Kerobokan prisoners re-enact brazen escape

Prisoner Dimitar Nikolove leads police and jail officials in the escape re-enactment.

Police in Bali have held a re-enactment of the escape of four prisoners as they continue the search for two inmates, including an Australian man.

Reconstructions of crimes are common in Indonesia, with offenders directed by police to act in so-called "scenes".

The two inmates who were recaptured in East Timor — Indian man Sayed Mohammed Said and Bulgarian man Dimitar Nikolove — were made to walk through the moments before and during their escape from Kerobokan prison.

Police confirmed there would be 30 "scenes," with five in the jail and the rest at other locations including the international airport, where an ex-prisoner had bought the escapees plane tickets.

Two hundred police, jail officials and inmates were part of the re-enactment.

"From block D they climbed to the roof and went outside and came down and they dug a hole behind the clinic," Police Superintendent Ruddy Setyawan said.

"They cleared out the water out of the hole — it was raining at the time."

Police said the men had escaped from their cells at 10:00pm and were out of the prison by 2:30am the next morning.

"After they got out of prison they changed clothes that they had brought from inside jail," Inspector Setyawan said.

Australian man Shaun Davidson and Malaysian Tee Kok King remain on the run, more than three weeks since the brazen escape.

Davidson had only a few months left to serve of his one-year sentence for using another person's passport, but is also facing charges in Perth.

The four inmates escaped by using an old drain and a 15-metre long tunnel, which is also believed to have been used to traffic drugs in and out of the prison.

Kerobokan was built in the late 1970s to hold around 300 prisoners but now has more than 1,300 male inmates.

The ABC's Foreign Correspondent program recently filmed for more than a week in the overcrowded facility, which is also home to Matthew Norman and Si Yi Chen — both members of the so-called Bali Nine.

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