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Boediono asks S’pore court for fair verdict in David’s case





Erwida Maulia , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Wed, 07/29/2009 11:02 AM | National

Indonesian vice-president-elect Boediono has asked the Singaporean coroner court trying the case of the death of Indonesian student David Hartanto Widjaya to settle it fairly.

The former central bank government made the call Tuesday at the city-state, while addressing a forum at Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.







Boediono also expressed his condolences over David’s death in the opening of his speech before senior Singaporean government officials and NTU professors, said blogger Iwan Piliang, who has been assisting David’s family in trying to uncover the real cause behind the NTU student’s death.

Iwan said David’s family had formally protested Boediono’s visit to NTU, but later rescinded the complaint after the latter promised to touch on the case in his speech.

“We’d heard about Boediono’s plan to address a forum at NTU on July 28, just a day before the coroner court is scheduled to read out the verdict [on David’s death],”

Iwan told The Jakarta Post from Singapore.

“After much lobbying, he agreed to address David’s death in his speech.”

David’s family are adamant he was murdered. They filed a request in April with the coroner court to consider the case a murder, challenging conclusions made by NTU and the Singaporean police that David had committed suicide.

Should the coroner court find his death was not a suicide, the case will be taken to the criminal court.


source: http://www.thejakartapost.com





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