A week after the terrorist bomb killed 200 people in Bali, Indonesia was still in a state of shock. And there was President Megawati, strolling around the Acropolis.

Imagine a stage, its décor distant and calm: limestone hills above the city of Athens; a blue sky still sharp though now autumn; the 17 remaining ancient pillars standing upright along the body of the Parthenon... On this day, Indonesia's president, as though completely o