Is Indonesia's little-know Bintan island really the next Bali?

09 October 2016 - 02:00
By Andrew Unsworth

Andrew Unsworth lands in the lap of luxury on the splendidly 'secret' island, Bintan, near Singapore It takes just an hour to cross the Singapore Strait to the Indonesian island of Bintan but, due to the time zones, you arrive at the same hour that you left. That's about all that's the same, because it's a world away from the skyscraping modernity of Singapore.

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