Moves to extradite foreign nationals convicted in Indonesia to their origin country could be accommodated in a mutual legal assistance (MLA) in criminal matters with a partner country. It is also within the President’s authority to make any decision based on mutual benefits,

The Indonesian government is open to the possibility of allowing President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to grant drug convict Mary Jane Veloso clemency, Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Eduardo de Vega said. Veloso,

Filipina domestic worker Mary Jane Veloso, who was sentenced to death in Indonesia on drug charges, said Thursday that she was "elated" to be returning home after a deal was brokered between the two nations.

Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) assessed that the transfer of drug-trafficking convict Mary Jane Veloso, who is facing death

We certainly do not want the situation in the Philippines where Mary Jane Veloso will be serving sentence for the rest of her life," Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Eduardo De Vega said.

Veloso, now 39, has been on death row in Indonesia since her arrest for heroin trafficking in Yogyakarta in 2010.

In 2015, as crunch time drew near, then-president Benigno Aquino III broke diplomatic protocol by phoning then-Indonesian foreign minister Retno Marsudi

After 14 years on death row, Mary Jane Veloso is finally returning home to the Philippines, as Indonesia signals a more humane approach to foreign prisoners under President Prabowo Subianto. It remains uncertain, however, whether the 39-year-old Filipino will be transferred to a Philippine prison or released upon her return.

While President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is optimistic about domestic helper Mary Jane Veloso’s return to the Philippines, he remains tight-lipped about whether he will grant her clemency upon her arrival.