{"id":2774,"date":"2003-01-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/01\/14\/2003-01-14-indonesian-police-official-blends-karma-with-investigative-technique\/"},"modified":"2003-01-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-14T12:00:00","slug":"2003-01-14-indonesian-police-official-blends-karma-with-investigative-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/01\/14\/2003-01-14-indonesian-police-official-blends-karma-with-investigative-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian Police Official Blends Karma With Investigative Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Washington Post <\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>BALI, INDONESIA, January 12, 2003: In difficult moments, I Made Pastika hikes briskly up a mint-green mountain toward a cool, silent place above the clouds. At the summit, after a two-hour climb, the Indonesian investigator in charge of solving the worst case of international terrorism since Sept. 11, 2001, sits cross-legged before an ornate, centuries-old temple carved of white stone, the highest Hindu temple in Bali. And then he prays. &#8220;I go there every time that I feel I need spiritual support, every time I&#8217;m facing a serious job,&#8221; the Bali native said in a cell phone interview from the mountainside. &#8220;It gives me strength.&#8221; A disarmingly direct official, Pastika blends respect for Western investigative techniques with reverence for his Eastern spiritual roots. His efforts have won him a measure of acclaim. With prosecutors preparing to charge the first suspects, Pastika has been praised by Indonesian civic leaders as well as foreign diplomats and human rights activists. Australia&#8217;s deputy ambassador, Neil Mules, said Pastika is &#8220;an example of the best that Indonesia has to offer.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Washington Post BALI, INDONESIA, January 12, 2003: In difficult moments, I Made Pastika hikes briskly up a mint-green mountain,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}