The story goes that when I Made Mangku Pastika was a young boy, a neighbor weighed him on his gambling debts. his grandfather, already a wealthy man with many goods, went bankrupt because of the accursed habit. He saw how the fathers of his friends ignored the education and well-being of their families. These memories have made a deep impression on the boy, and go a long way in explaining why today, Bali's governor is a strong supporter of the game of any kind.
Later, when Pastika became police chief of Bali, it has all but eliminated the vice because of social problems and untold suffering that it caused. It was during his tenure as chief Pastika Papuan police that helped solve the first Bali bomb - the terrorist atrocity in Bali in October 2002 - that made him widely known throughout the world. On an island whose economy is based on tourism, background Pastika as chief negotiator in the Bali bombings in 2002 and 2005 resisted his political career prominently.
Of humble origins, I Made Mangku Pastika was born the son of a teacher in a small village in Buleleng Regency Sanggalangit northern Bali in 1951. After the devastating eruption of Gunung Agung in 1963 family struggles were so hard that his father decided to join the government transmigration program in Bengkulu, south Sumatra, where he accepted a job as a school principal. Since the house was barely enough to accommodate the family, the boy would sometimes sleep on one of the chairs in his father's classroom. Pastika has held many different positions - cut grass, selling ice cream and flowers, working as a handyman for a Chinese family -. But his diligence paid by a high school diploma in Palembang
One day, by chance, the young man with a friend who wanted to register for the Indonesian police academy. When he learned that the school registration was free, he had the idea to resume the work of law enforcement. He graduated from the Academy in 1974, from his long career as a police officer.
Pastika began to distinguish from the start. While serving in Jakarta Tanjung Priok Harbour, several Chinese smugglers driving a large cargo truck full of electrical appliances in a warehouse. Pastika, who could speak Chinese, ordered the driver to stop, thus foiling a major smuggling attempt. The knowledge and experience later, he met in the mobile police brigade in the criminal investigation unit and Indonesia agency narcotics propelled her career forward. Pastika won appointment as police chief of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) in 1999 when the province was full of refugees from East Timor. After serving in NTT, he was appointed chief of Papua Police Department. His first mission was to investigate the murder of Theys Eluay, a local spokesman respected Papuan, which resulted in the conviction and sentence of four Kopassus soldiers.
When the opportunity to request a position as chief of police in his home province of Bali, Pastika was unable to qualify for the position. At the time, he was a two-star general, and the position was open only to a single star general. However, the job requirements were changed so that a qualified general two stars. After retiring from law enforcement as a three-star general, Pastika became the first democratically elected governor of the island in 2009. Previously, members of the upper castes Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Wesya had governed the province. Pastika, who did not come from a privileged background, was the first governor of the island native peasant caste Sudra.
As governor, he always tried to bridge the gap between public expectations and actual delivery of the government. While the public is becoming better informed and action-oriented, bureaucracy is stuck in their rules and regulations. He prefers not lead by decree, but by example. Not the kind of bureaucrat who goes home at 14 pm, it is at its 7h30-17 office hours. It is actually on the job one way or seven days a week, working to change the mindset of the bureaucracy, encouraging thousands of Bali officials to be more disciplined oriented public service and adopt modern practices. He is particularly keen on the development of what he called "e-government", computerize ministries.
A man of the people
Governor Pastika by Ubud Writers and festival players
After five years in the powerful position of governor Pastika won leading reputation outspoken, a man who represents the needs and aspirations of the common man. A deeply religious man in a nation dominated by Muslims, Pastika is a big believer in harmony, solidarity and tolerance among the various inter-religious and inter-ethnic social groups. So he is involved with many of the poor that is dedicated to the eradication of poverty. He launched the grass root level programs to make housing more affordable and has repaired and upgraded 6,000 houses belonging to poor Balinese.
The governor is largely responsible for the Bali become the first province in Indonesia to have universal health care. Through effective budgeting practices, he found a way to finance the coverage of health care for residents of Bali. Before the free health care, the maternal mortality rate for 2009 was 76 deaths per 100,000 births. In 2010, under the care free, this figure dropped to 51 per 100,000. Thousands of qualifying people have had cataracts removed so they can see clearly again, many for the first time.
Pastika has also proved himself a friend of the environment. The banjar 1473 traditional Balinese village were recruited to protect the environment. There have been marked improvements on the disposal of large amounts of Kuta waste brought by the tides of the sea. Several companies disposal and waste recycling began during the watch and the department stores of the governor were invited do not use plastic. Pastika has implemented programs to support organic farming and sustainable agriculture (organic garden surrounds his office in Renon). Some went as far to call it "visionary". He also set up a mass transit bus system, SABAGITA in the Denpasar / Badung crowded areas in southern Bali.
The Governor popular no-nonsense and his reelection team hopes that these achievements will be remembered by the electorate when he runs for a second five-year term in elections for governor of Bali this May. Pastika chose Bali Golkar chairman and Vice Regent Badung, I Ketut Sudikerta, to campaign with him as his running mate for the vice-governor. giant panels with candidates for governor and vice governor began to appear randomly on the island. Early polls have shown optimism that the governor is not unfounded. The ticket "Pastikerta" led to this day all the other candidates.