Photo stroke effects in InDesign?

I'm creating an annual report in InDesign and I'm placing a photo on a page. I'd like the photo to have a ragged edge effect, like you could achieve in Illustrator with a box that has a torn edge brush stroke.
However, there seems to be no brush effects in InDesign, and I'm not able to add that brush stroke in Illustrator either, for whatever reason.
Any tips?

Thanks for your contribution.
You technique is quiet simple and less nefarious than mine ;-), but the pros of my technique are that you can use any image (you can scan a torn piece of black paper or use anything "real") in order to produce a more realistic ragged frame, and, in addition it will look less "mechanical".
here's the result:
A detail:
Just in case, I got the ripped paper image there : http://pandoraicons.deviantart.com/art/1314x2212-Ripped-Paper-Texture-72053408
I just select the white backgroud, invert the selection - convert to path (1.0 tolerance) - save as a psd file

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