Soon after Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the Iranian president, stole the international limelight with his rambling letter to George W. Bush last week, he notched another win in his global campaign to woo fellow Muslims.

While pundits around the world dissected his letter and Washington dismissed it, Mr Ahmadi-Nejad was setting out to seduce the people of the world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia. And, when it all came to an end with his weekend flight home, he seemed to have succeeded.