Filipino death row inmate Mary Jane Veloso shows her handicraft during a workshop at Wirogunan prison in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, April 12, 2016. — REUTERS FILE PHOTO

INDONESIA will transfer Mary Jane Veloso, a Philippine woman sentenced to death in 2010 for drug trafficking, to her home country in the early hours of Wednesday, a senior Indonesian official said.

Jakarta agreed last month to repatriate Ms. Veloso, a former domestic helper and mother of two, who was arrested in Yogyakarta 14 years ago after being found with 2.6 kilograms of heroin concealed in a suitcase.

Ms. Veloso’s case caused a domestic outcry in the Philippines. She received a last-minute reprieve from execution in 2015 after the late former President Benigno S.C. Aquino III appealed to the Indonesian government, arguing she could be a vital witness in prosecuting drug syndicates.

World boxing icon Emmanuel D. Pacquiao had also campaigned for her to be spared the death penalty.

Ms. Veloso will be flown from a female prison in the capital of Jakarta, where she had been moved from a Yogyakarta jail, to the Philippines, deputy minister of Indonesia’s ministry for law and human rights affairs I Nyoman Gede Surya Mataram told a press conference on Monday.

Ms. Veloso will serve the remainder of her sentence in the Philippines.

The Philippine foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the repatriation. — Reuters

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