World Cup qualifying in Asia reaches its climax over the next week with Patrick Kluivert's Indonesia among six countries vying for two remaining spots from the region.
The football-mad nation of nearly 300 million people is on the verge of its first World Cup since gaining independence from the Dutch in 1945.
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