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</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Family makes 4-day trip here for more info
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>They try to meet NTU don and talk to son's varsity mates about his final hours </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Kimberly Spykerman
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The family visited NTU on Saturday to retrace Mr Widjaja's last steps, from Prof Chan's office to the site of his fall, where his mum and dad placed fresh flowers. -- ST PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->THE family of the Indonesian undergraduate believed to have fallen to his death after allegedly stabbing his professor returned here last week, hoping to find out more about the final hours of his life.
But after four days here, the parents and brother of former Nanyang Technological University (NTU) student David Hartanto Widjaja appeared to have accomplished little of what they had hoped to do.
They talked to some of Mr Widjaja's friends but failed to meet NTU president Su Guaning and Associate Professor Chan Kap Luk, who has since been discharged from hospital.
It has been a month since Mr Widjaja, a 21-year-old final-year electrical and electronic engineering student allegedly stabbed Prof Chan, 45, during a discussion over his final-year project and then fell four storeys to his death on campus.
His family is still grieving, and its members say they have been unable to come to terms with their loss because the young man gave them no inkling that anything was wrong when they spoke to him days before his death.
The family came back here the first chance they could, taking advantage of the long weekend tied to the legislative elections in Indonesia.
The day after their Wednesday arrival, they parked themselves at the Indonesian Embassy, where they waited six hours to meet more than 30 of Mr Widjaja's friends who had turned up to vote.
The Widjajas were, however, less successful in getting a meeting with Dr Su. They tried to arrange for one through the embassy, which sent in their request for the meeting late on Wednesday afternoon. By then, Dr Su's schedule was already filled with pre-arranged appointments.
The university said it was unable to accommodate the request at short notice and offered to let them meet the senior associate provost in charge of undergraduate education, but the family declined.
They wanted to speak to Dr Su, who was the first to take them through the sequence of events leading to Mr Widjaja's death.
His family members were also unable to meet Prof Chan to hear his side of the story, despite making a trip to his condominium home in Jurong East on Friday.
They said the condo's security guard recognised them from their pictures in the newspapers and asked them to wait while he got in touch with Prof Chan. The guard returned a while later to say the professor did not want to see them.
Contacted, Prof Chan declined comment and said he did not wish to talk about 'the issue'.
Previous reports said NTU had tried to arrange for him to meet the family, but he was then just out of surgery and not receiving visitors.
Ahead of their visit here, the Widjajas consulted an Indonesian forensic expert with a copy of the autopsy results which NTU had forwarded them.
Mr Widjaja's brother William, 24, said the report cited 36 cuts and bruises on the student, although the toxicology report indicated that he had consumed neither drugs nor alcohol.
Mr William Widjaja said his brother called home twice a week and sent short phone messages to his mother regularly. Mr David Widjaja also had near-daily online conversations with his brother - the last on the Saturday before his death, about which laptop was a good buy.
Mr William Widjaja said his brother was open about his grades, forwarding a copy of his grade transcript home every semester. He even told his parents about his scholarship being terminated, and had been told not to worry because they could pay his final semester fees.
His brother said: 'He knew it was going to happen because his results were not so good, and he told us it was because he had been lazy and spent too much time playing computer games. But he didn't sound upset.'
On Saturday afternoon, the family spent more than an hour at NTU, retracing Mr Widjaja's final steps from Prof Chan's office to the site of his fall, where they laid fresh flowers.
They returned to Jakarta early yesterday morning. [email protected]
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Family makes 4-day trip here for more info
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>They try to meet NTU don and talk to son's varsity mates about his final hours </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Kimberly Spykerman
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The family visited NTU on Saturday to retrace Mr Widjaja's last steps, from Prof Chan's office to the site of his fall, where his mum and dad placed fresh flowers. -- ST PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->THE family of the Indonesian undergraduate believed to have fallen to his death after allegedly stabbing his professor returned here last week, hoping to find out more about the final hours of his life.
But after four days here, the parents and brother of former Nanyang Technological University (NTU) student David Hartanto Widjaja appeared to have accomplished little of what they had hoped to do.
They talked to some of Mr Widjaja's friends but failed to meet NTU president Su Guaning and Associate Professor Chan Kap Luk, who has since been discharged from hospital.
It has been a month since Mr Widjaja, a 21-year-old final-year electrical and electronic engineering student allegedly stabbed Prof Chan, 45, during a discussion over his final-year project and then fell four storeys to his death on campus.
His family is still grieving, and its members say they have been unable to come to terms with their loss because the young man gave them no inkling that anything was wrong when they spoke to him days before his death.
The family came back here the first chance they could, taking advantage of the long weekend tied to the legislative elections in Indonesia.
The day after their Wednesday arrival, they parked themselves at the Indonesian Embassy, where they waited six hours to meet more than 30 of Mr Widjaja's friends who had turned up to vote.
The Widjajas were, however, less successful in getting a meeting with Dr Su. They tried to arrange for one through the embassy, which sent in their request for the meeting late on Wednesday afternoon. By then, Dr Su's schedule was already filled with pre-arranged appointments.
The university said it was unable to accommodate the request at short notice and offered to let them meet the senior associate provost in charge of undergraduate education, but the family declined.
They wanted to speak to Dr Su, who was the first to take them through the sequence of events leading to Mr Widjaja's death.
His family members were also unable to meet Prof Chan to hear his side of the story, despite making a trip to his condominium home in Jurong East on Friday.
They said the condo's security guard recognised them from their pictures in the newspapers and asked them to wait while he got in touch with Prof Chan. The guard returned a while later to say the professor did not want to see them.
Contacted, Prof Chan declined comment and said he did not wish to talk about 'the issue'.
Previous reports said NTU had tried to arrange for him to meet the family, but he was then just out of surgery and not receiving visitors.
Ahead of their visit here, the Widjajas consulted an Indonesian forensic expert with a copy of the autopsy results which NTU had forwarded them.
Mr Widjaja's brother William, 24, said the report cited 36 cuts and bruises on the student, although the toxicology report indicated that he had consumed neither drugs nor alcohol.
Mr William Widjaja said his brother called home twice a week and sent short phone messages to his mother regularly. Mr David Widjaja also had near-daily online conversations with his brother - the last on the Saturday before his death, about which laptop was a good buy.
Mr William Widjaja said his brother was open about his grades, forwarding a copy of his grade transcript home every semester. He even told his parents about his scholarship being terminated, and had been told not to worry because they could pay his final semester fees.
His brother said: 'He knew it was going to happen because his results were not so good, and he told us it was because he had been lazy and spent too much time playing computer games. But he didn't sound upset.'
On Saturday afternoon, the family spent more than an hour at NTU, retracing Mr Widjaja's final steps from Prof Chan's office to the site of his fall, where they laid fresh flowers.
They returned to Jakarta early yesterday morning. [email protected]
