Campus's Statements Regarding Gilang Endi's Death During Student Activity Of Sebelas Maret University

A member of the police is showing a number of evidences in the case of the death of a UNS student while attending the Education and Training Center of Student Regiment in Solo, Monday, October 25 (Aris Wasita/Antara)

JAKARTA - The Sebelas Maret University (UNS) Surakarta confirmed that a student named Gilang Endi (23) died while attending the basic education and training of a student regiment (diklatsar menwa) on the Bengawan Solo River, Jurug area, on Sunday, October 24.

Director of Academic Reputation and Student Affairs UNS Sutanto in Solo, Central Java, Monday, said the campus did not yet know the cause of the death of the 2020 UNS Occupational Safety and Health (K3) Vocational School student.

"For the cause, we all don't know yet, so in order to find the answer and the family can accept, the family has agreed to allow the autopsy, this can explain more why," he said as quoted by Antara, Tuesday, October 26.

So just wait for the autopsy results. The initial chronology I heard was that the battalion commander, the menwa commander, and the provost commander said that indeed the person concerned had no special health symptoms, only his legs were cramping, so someone accompanied him specifically," he said.

As a result of this incident, he said, the activities which started on Saturday, October 23 and should have been completed on Sunday, October 31, were temporarily suspended.

Regarding the activities carried out during the training, he said, one of the field orientations was starting from health checks, helmet collection, until the orientation of the field itself.

"This participant walked to the engineering faculty, then headed to the lake, stopped at the bridge there. Next there was physical activity, there was also material and in the afternoon returned to headquarters here," he said.

He said currently the campus still maintains the presumption of innocence.

"We will basically base it on authentic evidence that can be justified both legally and medically to make clear steps for student units like this. In principle, we maintain the presumption of innocence before complete information from the police," he said.