REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Executive Director of Migrant Care Anis Hidayah said its worst to set free the ones who guilty than to punish one innocent person. Moreover, he said, to impose the death penalty.

"The case of Mary Jane should be a lesson for Indonesian law and justice. Death penalty is the highest official verdict, including the president, he must be careful," said Anis Hidayah by phone in Jakarta,  a Wednesday, May 6.

Anis said the judiciary and the government should be more careful in reading the law and filing the clemency process. It is not possible to make errors in the decision-making process.

"Not when she has been sentenced to death, she was later proven innocent. If it is wrong to punish her dead, who can restore her live?" said Anis.

According to Anis, the judiciary should have the perspective that a case often does not stand alone because it has been linked or associated with other cases. Cases of human trafficking, for example, are often connected with drug cases since it concerned, like Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, was framed to be a drug courier unnoticed.

Anis said what happened to Mary Jane is often occurred. In some cases handled by Migrant Care, there are quite a lot of Indonesian citizens convicted as a drug courier.

"Many Indonesia citizens are trapped into a drug courier in the Philippines, China and Malaysia," he said.

Mary Jane is one of the nine death rows whom should be executed in the second part, on Wednesday morning, April 29. However, the Attorney General's Office have delayed the execution of Mary Jane as the Philippine government needs the witness from Mary Jane after the woman whom suspect as Mary Jane’s recruiter, Maria Kristina Sergio, surrendered to Philippines police, on Tuesday, April 28.

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