Malacañang on Wednesday said the government is exerting all legal and diplomatic means to save the life of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) on death row in Indonesia.

Citing a statement from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said that President Benigno S. Aquino 3rd has been sending letters to his Indonesian counterparts, former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and President Joko Widodo, to grant Mary Jane Veloso an executive clemency.

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