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Singapore sends autopsy report to David’s family
The Jakarta Post , JAKARTA | Sat,
04/04/2009 11:48 AM | National
Singapore’s Nanyang Technology University (NTU) has finally sent
the autopsy report of David Hartanto Widjaja, an Indonesian student
who died on its campus last month, to his family.
“We have received a scanned copy of the report by e-mail,”
William Hartanto, David’s older brother, told The Jakarta Post on
Friday by telephone.
He added that at first the university had offered to send the
report by a courier service.
“The report mostly contained medical terms. Thus, we will seek
professional help to decipher them,” William said, refusing to
divulge the contents of the report.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Teguh Wardoyo said his
office received no notification regarding the report.
“It was Singapore’s initiative to send it directly to the family
and we cannot object to that,” he said.
On March 3, 2008, David was found dead after plunging from the
third floor of a building on the NTU
campus.
Singaporean authorities believe that the young man slashed his
wrist and jumped to his death after stabbing a professor.
However, his family has refused to believe this story, saying
that David was not the kind of person who would act violently
towards another person or himself.
“There were no eyewitnesses who saw my brother stab the
professor or jump from the third floor. The reports were all based
on the professor’s own words,” William said earlier this week.
He added that when he flew to Singapore to claim the body, he
saw no indication that his brother had tried to slash his
wrist.
“There was no blood flowing from his hands or arms, but there
was some on his backside and legs, so why did they say he slashed
his wrists?” he said.
William says that Singaporean authorities made it difficult for
the family, who flew to Singapore a day after the incident, to see
David’s body.
“The scene was immediately cleared and we were not allowed to
see the body of David right away,” he said.
Two other deaths on the NTU campus came
soon after David’s. Zhou Zheng, a 24-year old researcher at the
university’s laboratory was found hanging, dead, in an apartment on
the campus.
Not long after, 29 year-old Hu Kunlun, another researcher, was
hit by a car on his way to the campus. Both researchers were
Chinese citizens.
The incident has caused a stir among Indonesians, with
conspiracy theories being circulated and talk of revolutionary
technology being invented by the 21-year old David.
Blogger Iwan Piliang has suggested that the confiscation of
David’s computer and cellular phone by the Singaporean police
proves that David’s thesis, which involved three-dimensional face
recognition technology, was of high economic value.
“There may have been people with vested interests behind David’s
death because of his research findings ,” he told journalists
earlier this week.
Yayan Mulyana, spokesperson for the Indonesian Embassy in
Singapore, said that the embassy was yet to receive the autopsy
report.
“We will ensure that the investigation is well conducted and
that David’s family will obtain justice in this case,” he said.
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