By putting radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on trial for the 2002 bomb in Bali which claimed 202 dead, the New President of Indonesia Susilo Bambamg Yudhoyono proclaims to the world, that contrary to his predecessor, he is seriously fighting the islamist terror which greatly damaged his country's reputation for religious tolerance and scared off foreign tourists and investors.

But if radicals are losing the war on terror, islamists are winning the battle for the mind of Indonesians : a creeping islamisation is affecting Indonesian society, visible on beaches, in the pressure brought on...