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By The Nightly

6 December 2025

Island idyll - The curious tale of two Indonesian isles you’ve never heard of.

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No one knows Nikoi, or its nearby sibling, Cenpedak – a pair of lush green dots held in the warm waters of the South China Sea and Indonesia’s north-eastern Riau Archipelago.
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These two island holidays will stick with you forever

Unspoiled, unhurried and gloriously unpretentious, Nikoi and Cenpedak remind you that wonder lives in the wild.

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