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(6 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jakarta, Indonesia - 6 December 2024
1. Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration and Correctional, Yusril Ihza Mahendra enters the room with Raul Vazquez, Undersecretary at the Department of Justice of the Philippines to sign the agreement
2. Various of Mahendra and Vasquez signing, showing the signed documents and shaking hands
3. SOUNDBITE ((Indonesian) Yusril Ihza Mahendra, Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration and Correctional:
"We agree to repatriate the person concerned with the Philippines and furthermore the obligation towards prisoner Mary Jane Veloso becomes the responsibility of the Philippines government. A pardon, or full remission is the decision of the Philippine president that we will respect."
4. Mid of joint press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Raul Vazquez, Undersecretary at the Department of Justice of the Philippines:
"It's a fitting gift that affirms the good relations between the two countries."
6. Cutaway of delegation
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Raul Vazquez, Undersecretary at the Department of Justice of the Philippines:
"We do understand and we respect the decision of the Indonesian court with respect to the sentence that was imposed on our citizen Mary Jane Veloso and we will endeavour to let her serve her sentence."
8. End of joint press conference

STORYLINE:
Indonesia and the Philippines signed a deal on Friday to send home a Filipino death-row drug convict who was nearly executed by firing squad in 2015, as the new administration of President Prabowo Subianto seeks to shore up diplomatic ties with neighboring countries.

The agreement, the fruit of a decade of negotiations by Manila, will allow Mary Jane Veloso to return home, which is expected before Christmas.

A joint team from both countries will work closely for the repatriation after the agreement was signed.

Veloso was arrested in 2010 after arriving in Yogyakarta's international airport carrying a suitcase lined with 2.6 kilograms (5.7 pounds) of heroin and later sentenced to death.

Veloso is currently in a Yogyakarta prison, where she has been for 14 years.

She traveled to Indonesia where her godsister reportedly told her a job as a domestic worker awaited her.

Her godsister also allegedly provided the suitcase where the prohibited drugs were found.

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