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An island to call your own
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FANCY slipping away to a deserted tropical island? Indonesia has some 17,000 of them, all tropical and many uninhabited. It plans to offer a few to foreigners in a bid to drum up some much-needed cash.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “An island to call your own”
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