Indonesian student jumps to death after stabbing Singapore’s NTU professor
Parents of David Hartanto Widjaja (pron. Wijaya) have identified his body:
The parents of an NTU undergraduate, who fell to his death after stabbing his professor in the university campus, has identified his body at the Singapore General Hospital mortuary.
They flew in from Jakarta on Monday evening after the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) authorities notified them of the tragedy, which stunned students returning to the campus on the first day after a one-week break.
David Widjaja’s parents and his elder brother were accompanied by NTU counsellors and officials from the Indonesian Embassy here.
Why the stabbing happens:
THE Nanyang Technological University student who stabbed his professor and then fell to his death was apparently upset over the termination of his Asean scholarship, said an Indonesian Embassy official here.
Mr Djatmiko of the Embassy’s Counsellor Protocol Office told Indonesia’s detikNews on Monday: ‘The motive of the stabbing apparently has to do with the termination of his scholarship, and there seemed to be a miscommunication over this.’
David Hartanto Widjaja in Picture
terima semuanya dengan ikhlas dan passti jalan keluar akan muncul.
komentar saya katanya yg menusuk student itu adalah dari prof dulu baru dibalas oleh student itu sekarang kalo kenyataan emang yg pertama student yg tusuk dulu kenapa jenazahnya tak boleh dilihat seperti ada yg disembunyikan hai proff akuilah kronologi yg sehat berhubung tak ada saksi jangan seenaknya memfitnah student indo tuhan maha tau ,saya juga alumi smak 1 tidak bisa terima kronologis yg di media dan saya akan menginformasikan jangan lagi terima bea siswa dari singapore ,saya kira negara barat lebih jentle lho eh kesian de lu proff amin
http://comment.straitstimes.com/show…=17387&page=13
http://www.kaskus.us/showthread.php?t=1495128
Possibilities:
1. Professor attacked David. I deduced this thing for several key points.
According to many reports, David’s cloth was soaked on blood. If the blood is
the result from slashing his wrist, it should not soak his cloth since wrist is
far from body. If the wound is from neck, it is easier.
2. David tried to run from Professor. After he realized that he was attacked,
he resisted and run from that room, with wound on his neck.
3. David falled because of unconsciousness. He became panic and probably lose
his common sense because of terrible bleeding, drop himself down into glassed roof
to escape from his Professor.
(copied from the link above)
Mana teman David yg di NTU. Beri komentar dan keterangan dong, biar gak simpang siur. Biar kebenaran terungkap.
itukan cuma drama…….
singapore takut sama Indonesia
jadi kematiannya didramatisir…
takut klo Indonesia embargo mahasiswanya pergi ke singapore..
lagian ngapain juga kuliah jauh2…..
ntar jga palingan klo cari kerjaannya di Indonesia…ijazahnya cuma jadi bungkusan dipasar…
cuma mau kasih pendapat aja soal artikel dan comment2nya:
1. so far nggak ada yang menyatakan kalau David “stabs” Profesornya, itu hanya “believed”. Jadi jangan salah tanggep.
2. Yang menyatakan pertama kali bahwa beasiswa yang menjadi motif adalah Embassy’s Counsellor Protocol Office. Hum, without any investigation. Makanya dia cuma bilang “apparently”, jadi jangan langsung dianggep bener adanya.
So, in conclusion, tidak ada yang tau soal masalah ini. Bahkan aku sendiri yang ada di NTU pun, masih dalam kebingungan menanti kepastian dari polisi.
But for me (based on my opinion), masih banyak hal yang nggak clear, mulai dari asal muasal pisau, di mana letak pisau setelah kejadian, apa yang menjadi motivasi david (beasiswa nggak begitu mempengaruhi, NTU udah mengasih peringatan 3 kali agar nggak ‘shock’, so soal beasiswa david udah expected, so nggak mungkin itu yang jadi trigger nya), dan banyak hal lainnya.
Semoga suatu saat semua menjadi jelas dan mungkin penulis bisa update soal fact aslinya di sini juga, as a new article, not just a comment.
ini termasuk berita yang heboh banget nih.hmmm masalah stress juga termasuk kedalam klasifikasi berat juga y
it’s so obvious that NTU tried to spice things up to cover something!! from the statement that said david slit his wrist is already wrong. nothing found in his arms. instead a long cut found on his neck.
he’s a good guy and he doesnt have any financial problem. his family is not poor, n not a big problem for them to pay the tuition even tho scholarship has been terminated
when the family came to see david’s body, they never allow the parents to see the whole body, only the upper neck n head. don’t know what they r trying to cover up. and the knife found was without the handle. isnt that ridiculous???
edwin2026
Today, 02:37 PM
I am one of David Hartanto’s close friend and I am here to give you
some facts, assumptions, possibilities about this case
Facts:
1. Lok Tat Seng: Dean of Student of NTU gathered all Indonesian students in
International Student Center on evening after incident and
he just said there was witness on the spot who saw David’s body lying on the ground,
dead. Dean did not said that witness saw David jumped from balcony.
And that is, according to him, all he has saw.
2. The only official statement from police is: David was found dead at
the crime scene, they did not mention whether he commited suicide.
The link: http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIM…20at%20NTU.pdf
They also just mention ‘The professor was believed to be stabbed’. The police
did not say that ‘the professor was stabbed’. Where this assumption come from? Why
they did not say about it?
3. I and some Indonesian students gather tonight, 3 March 2009, at 8 pm,
at International Student Center and talked to David’s parent.
They have seen his body. There was NO WOUND whatsoever on his wrists
and police also has confirmed it.
I assumed that his parent would not lie it means that all media news about
‘David slashed his wrist’ was FAKE.
4. The wounds found on David’s body, according to his parents,
were on his head (It is assumed due to fall injury),
and slash wound on his neck. The wound on his neck is very suspicious, in
my opinion. How he received that wound?? Again, according to his parent,
police guessed that it may be happened when the bottom part of his head smashed
the ground. In that case, his chin will have broken and it did not.
My question is: WHERE DOES THAT SLASH WOUND ON HIS NECK CAME FROM?
Assumptions:
1. David stabbed professor. How did you know? The crime scene is closed room,
only David and that professor. No one see what has happened.
Eye-witness only saw David run out from that room.
2. David commited suicide. How could someone who commited suicide drop himself
into glassed roof, instead of directly drop himself to ground.
3. David slashed his wrist. I do not know where this news came from…
4. David’s motivation.
4.1. He pissed off since his prof did not give satisfactory grade
The grade has not been released and he even has not submitted the report.
It is also NTu policy not to inform the student about the grade which they got
before release of the result.
4.2. He has mental problem
No record in Student Counselling Centre about his attendance. For bright student
as him, I did not believe that he did not attend counseling if he has some
problems. Also, he still brought bag with usual daily stuff, on incident day,
such as drink bottle, towel, etc. If David planned to kill someone why would
he prepare to bring such things. It is easier for him to just bring one knife
and stab his prof on spot.
4.3. He pissed off because his scholarship has been revoked
I knew David since I was his roommate for 2 consecutive
years during Mathematical Olympiad training camp. He almost did not
qualify for IMO, only managed to get at 14th rank from 15 people selected.
He still joked and laughed to me at that time. He also did not get anything
from IMO and still fine, not seemed depressed whatsoever, and according to his
parents, he said ‘At least, I managed to represent Indonesia at IMO’
He also still play Hammerfall game in Facebook at 2 am on the incident day. My friend
saw his Facebook account online. How come
a murderer played game in the night before incident? If I was him,
I will seriously think how would I prepare myself tomorrow
Possibilities:
1. Professor attacked David. I deduced this thing for several key points.
According to many reports, David’s cloth was soaked on blood. If the blood is
the result from slashing his wrist, it should not soak his cloth since wrist is
far from body. If the wound is from neck, it is easier.
2. David tried to run from Professor. After he realized that he was attacked,
he resisted and run from that room, with wound on his neck.
3. David falled because of unconsciousness. He became panic and probably lose
his common sense because of terrible bleeding, drop himself down into glassed roof
to escape from his Professor.
I am responsible for what I have written here, and contact me at kaminari.no.me@gmail.com if you need any clarification.
link asli nya: http://comment.straitstimes.com/show…=17387&page=13
There was a second SUSPECTED suicide in a week in NTU. David was BELIEVED to have committed suicide. I really hope NTU and the authorities investigate this case throughly. In David’s friends and family’s eyes who had known David for long, David wasn’t the one who could give up life easily. Unless he was ‘forced’ and no one knows. Psychologically,it’s strange that someone could jump to the glass panel why not to the ground.