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Merely look at all the above answers. They don't indent and follow the flush left rule - increasing then space between paragraphs.
This is becoming more and more common both in books as in scientific articles.
In the end, it depends on personal taste and editor/publisher preferences.
In Portugal, someone added that the first line of the first paragraph is not indented - that, also, varies with publishers.
Rules are made to broken by time and taste.

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