David’s NTU Student: Family to take legal action

Family to take legal action to investigate David’s death

The family of David Hartanto, an Indonesian student accused of stabbing his professor at Singapore’s Nanyang Technology University (NTU) before committing suicide, will take further legal steps to investigate his death.

“We are planning to hire a Singaporean lawyer to take this case to court,” David’s father, Hartono Widjaja, said in Jakarta on Monday, following the family’s recent seven-day visit to Singapore to gather more information on the incident.

On March 3, David was found dead, after he plunged from the third floor of a building on the NTU campus.

NTU Director Su Guaning told the Singaporean media that David allegedly stabbed professor Chan Kap Luk before slitting his wrists and jumping to his death.

David’s family has rejected the story, saying that the statement was based on the professor’s words only and that the director gave the statement before police completed their investigation.

The David family plan and conspiracy theories surrounding David’s alleged suicide death seems to catch attention Singapore media like the Strait Times.