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00:00Even if Mary Jane Veloso is allowed to go back to the Philippines, her release is not automatic because according to the DOJ and DFA, there are possible conditions that the Philippines must follow.
00:14In the middle of this, Mary Jane gave a message from Piitan, Indonesia.
00:19Witness, Ivan Myrina.
00:21The woman in the middle playing the keyboard is Mary Jane Veloso, who has been in prison in Indonesia for more than a decade.
00:32In a statement read by the prison warden, along with thanks to those who help her, Mary Jane said that she is very happy that she can go home to the Philippines and be with her family.
00:44Mary Jane's family is not happy.
00:47Mary Jane, this is your room. When you arrive, you will sleep here.
00:52For more than a decade, Mary Jane has not had the opportunity to be with her children, Darren.
00:59His mother has been abroad for more than two years.
01:02I am envious. Sometimes I am envious. I think that if my mother is there, I will be with her.
01:08It's hard because sometimes I was bullied in school. My parents said that I was like that.
01:15Where?
01:16They said that I was in prison. But we don't pay attention to it anymore because if we are punished, nothing will happen. That's why we don't pay attention to it anymore.
01:28Like other OFWs, Mary Jane used to be the only one who can help her family.
01:33But she was sent home after being in prison for 14 years.
01:37Because of that, her recruiters beat her up so much that she didn't know that she was carrying two kilos of heroin.
01:44I preached to my children that they should fear God. That's why it's painful that my daughter committed a sin. That's why it's painful.
01:57Mary Jane's parents called President Bongbong Marcos.
02:01What I want from our beloved President is that when my daughter returns home, he will not imprison her.
02:08He will bring her home directly so that we can be with her.
02:13Why?
02:14Because we are very attached to my daughter. I really want to hug her.
02:22Since she was in prison in Indonesia, I hope that they will bring her home directly.
02:32According to the government of Indonesia, it's time for Mary Jane to return to the country.
02:37It's up to the President to forgive her, especially since there's no death penalty in the Philippines.
02:43The President was also shocked when he visited the ground breaking of a solar farm in Nueva Ecija.
02:48We will see. We will see. It's not clear yet how... This is the first time this has happened. Everything is on the table.
03:01According to the President, it's clear that Veloso is safe from the prison because his sentence for life in prison has been lowered.
03:10We have been working on this for all the previous... It's not just me. It's been 10 years.
03:17It's been 10 years, but what we did is we commuted his sentence from death sentence to life imprisonment.
03:24Now, according to the lawyer of Veloso...
03:27Commutation is lowering, reducing, reducing the sentence.
03:34How can you reduce the death penalty? One is death, the other is imprisonment. It's different.
03:44According to the Department of Justice, under the planned agreement to return Veloso to the Philippines,
03:50it doesn't mean that he will be released immediately.
03:53The Philippines is obligated to follow the possible conditions of Indonesia,
03:58such as the continuation of his sentence for drug trafficking,
04:03aside from the imprisonment that is prohibited by our laws.
04:07We need to give respect to the judgment made by the Indonesian courts against him,
04:16that he is guilty.
04:23We cannot turn a blind eye to it.
04:26When it comes to this, automatically, we need to pardon him or give him an executive clemency.
04:33But according to the lawyer of Veloso, Indonesia has no power over Veloso.
04:37It's time for him to return here.
04:39Mary Jane's case in Indonesia is over legally.
04:43How is that? There is no death penalty.
04:45So, the range of possibilities is that he can be sentenced to 40 years of permanent reclusion.
04:53Or else, what we want and push for is absolute pardon.
04:59He will not be imprisoned for even a second.
05:01I hope that when he goes home, we will do all the happy things with him,
05:09so that we can make up for the time he lost.
05:14For GMA Integrated News, I'm Ivan Mayreen.