Netizens beg to spare Veloso’s life
Indonesian netizens stormed Twittersphere on Friday, appealing to their government to spare the life of Mary Jane Veloso, the Filipino maid set to face the firing squad, a Time.com report said.
The massive social media campaign pushed the hashtag #MaryJane as No. 2 trending topic in Indonesia, hours after Veloso was transferred to the execution island of Nusakambangan.
“Is my President a murderer?” Dewi Candraningrum, the chief editor of feminist magazine Jurnal Perempuan (Women’s Journal), posted on Twitter. Candraningrum also uploaded a charcoal-on-paper drawing Mary Jane, Time.com also said in its report.
Indonesian celebrity chef Rahung Nasution, who initiated the tweet storm, also posted: “Jokowi is not battling drugs. He is executing poor women, like the migrant workers in Saudi Arabia!! #MaryJane.”
The report said Rahung was referring to the two Indonesian domestic workers executed in the Middle East country last week.
The National Commission on Violence Against Women also posted a series of tweets on why the government should not execute Veloso, the Time.com also said in the report bylined by Yenni Kwok.
