Made Pastika; Bali Police Chief, Governor, Dog

This is the face of Made Mangku Pastika, the former police chief of Bali and PDI party contender for the position of Balinese Governor; Gods help us. The western and Indonesian media try to make Pastika out to be a hero of the Balinese people; he is not, he is a dirty low-life Indonesian dog. His only claim to fame is he was the police chief of Bali when the Australian, US and British police went about capturing the Javanese scum that detonated bombs in Bali in 2002. But look at the facts about Pastika; he is no hero and he is not Balinese any more.

Before his role as top cop in Bali, Pastika was the police of chief in Irian Jaya; West Papua as many westerners call it. Under his watch two aid workers were murdered under highly questionable circumstances which implicate the Indonesian military (TNI) and Made Pastika himself of murder and cover-up. You can read the facts, rather than what Jakarta and now Washington would have you believe here: Made Pastika West Papua. Basically two western school teachers were murdered almost certainly by the Indonesian military or their agents as a lesson to the Freeport Mining Company for reducing the amount they paid the TNI for "protection"; a revenge act to show they needed protection. You see, Freeport had to reduce their corruption bungs to the TNI in the wake of the US Enron scandal where major corporations in America came under intense scrutiny for undeclared substantial payments. The FBI at one point wanted to interview Made Pastika over these murders, but he declined. It is a well know fact published by the likes of Human Rights Watch (Indonesia) that the chiefs of police for West Papua are the most corrupt, most human right abusing dogs in Indonesia; Pastika is, let me assure you, no exception.

Pastika came to Bali in the aftermath of the 2002 terrorist bombings and just sat on his fat uneducated Indonesian behind because Jakarta had instructed him to allow foreign police to track down the bombers. This actually suited Pastika very well as it gave him more time for corruption and at the same time secured him undeserved fame. Corruption went up dramatically in Bali under Pastika and several high profile narcotics cases such as Corby and Leslie raised serious doubts about his ability and ethics with even the most stupid of people. During his time as police chief he authorized both illegal unofficial investigations in league with the local "mafia" and even signed an Interpol watch order against an innocent man, which reported information on his whereabouts overseas and which was passed to armed thugs to have him killed; fact (see Jack Daniels Bali). Pastika did nothing to ingratiate himself with the Balinese as he took an order to ban gambling to extremes and stopped traditional cock fights, the joy of many working Balinese men when he need not have. People close to him report he gloated about ruining the leisure activities of the everyday Balinese man and thus confirmed himself as an enemy of Bali, a former Balinese, a nasty Indonesian street dog. Made Pastika was also incredibly inept, proven by the fact that even after a presidential warning of an impending terrorist attack in Bali in 2005, Pastika did not tighten security as he should and more people lost their lives; this is a fact, the President himself declared that security had not been tightened enough by Bali's police after the bombings.

Implicated in unlawful police drugs "business" several times, against a backcloth of where narcotics and brothels in Indonesia are known to be controlled by the police (see: Indonesian Narcotics and Indonesian Brothels), Made Pastika did nothing about child sex workers or endemic street narcotics in Bali while he was police chief, why? Of course, in true Indonesian fashion, despite the fact Pasika did nothing about drugs himself and was even implicated in unlawful police drugs business, incredibly he was promoted to head Indonesia's Narcotics Police Unit, which is like appointing Kim Jong-il as the UN General Secretary; but the media machine loved it. Naturally, once out of Bali, I Made Mangku Pastika did another typically Indonesian thing; he opened his big fat mouth and blurted that Bali needed to clean up its act regarding narcotics and child prostitution.

A brief moment of hope came when Pastika was reported to have heart problems; thousands of Balinese prayed for him to die. Unfortunately Made Pastika seems to have recovered and now has been chosen as the PDI (an idiot TNI friendly political party lead by old crow and daughter of Sukarno, Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Soekarnoputri) as candidate for Governor of Bali. Perfect, a man who has done nothing except evil and even murderous deeds and who is hated by so many Balinese is likely to become head of state for Bali. How the US, Jakarta and TNI must be happy. Make no bones about it, if they can find a cell with an entrance large enough for his big head, Made Pastika should be in jail, not in office.