Mary Jane Veloso, on death row in Indonesia, is coming home. To be sure, she would still be a prisoner, but at least she would serve out the rest of her
sentence in a Philippine jail.
In January this year, the Philippines received a commitment from outgoing President Joko Widodo that the case would be reviewed. His successor, President Prabowo Subianto, made good on that commitment. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced Wednesday that the two countries had reached an agreement to bring Veloso home, even as there is no written agreement yet as of press time Thursday.
It is a good development that a Department of Migrant Workers has been created, even as it betrays a resignation to the fact that labor migration will be a fixture in our society for the foreseeable future. Acknowledging the situation at hand, the government must not lose steam in its efforts toward the constant education, awareness, and care of departing workers so that they may not find themselves in situations where they could not defend themselves.
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