BRUSSELS -- All the appearances are that Indonesia, the world's third largest democracy and largest Muslim state, has come of age, with the consolidation this year of a democracy that was reborn after 44 years in 1999.

Megawati Sukarnoputri, the outgoing president, has lost to her former coordinating minister for political and security affairs, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, in a landslide defeat.

Now it's all over bar the counting -- the final outcome will not be announced until Oct. 5 -- but unofficial results indicate a margin of better than three to two in his favor, with Megawati probably not winning more than one of Indonesia's 32 provinces outside of her Bali fastness.