'The family has decided to sue the academy. The academy should be held responsible for the incident,' the victim's aunt Nina said at the family's residence on Jl. Cibadak in Medan on Sunday.

Nina revealed that several members of the family would go to Jakarta on Monday to meet other family members to discuss the lawsuit.

She said the lawsuit aimed to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future at the academy.

Besides planning to sue the academy, Nina said the family hoped the police could take stern action against the perpetrators, who had tortured the victim to death.

Dimas Dikita Handoko, 19, died on Friday night after reportedly being beaten by his seniors at the academy. He suffered severe bruises to his body. Dimas was buried at a public cemetery on Saturday night.

Meanwhile, Dimas' mother Rukita Hanayanti, 43, revealed that she had called Dimas a few hours before he died.

'I called him at about 2 p.m. He said he would meet his seniors at midnight. I texted him, but he did not reply,' Rukita, who happened to be in Jakarta to meet Dimas, said.

Rukita said that she wanted to make a surprise visit to Dimas as she had not seen her son since he started his studies at the academy 18 months ago.

'Later, police informed me about the incident,' Rukita said, while expressing the hope that such an incident would never happen again.

Dimas is not the first STIP student to have died at the hands of senior students.

STIP first-grade student Agung Bastian Gultom, was reportedly beaten to death by his seniors after joining an initiation program on May 12, 2008.

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