“The advocacy for the four migrant workers in Saudi Arabia is urgent because there are no legal channels left for them and time is running out for these workers,” Hendrar Pramutyo, spokesman for the Indonesian Embassy in Riyadh, said on Thursday.

He said seven members of the Migrant Worker Taskforce selected by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would visit the Kingdom to hold talks with relevant Saudi government agencies and officials to solve the four cases.

The task force will also appeal to Saudi social activists and religious scholars to act as mediators between the task force and families of the victims.

The four workers facing execution are Siti Zaenab, Satinah binti Jumadi Ahmad, Aminah binti Hajibudi and Darmawati binti Taryani.

Zaenab and Ahmad were given the death penalty for murdering their employers in western Saudi Arabia, while Hajibudi and Taryani were sentenced for killing and mutilating the body of another migrant worker. Indonesia has allocated $10 million to cover the task force’s operational costs.

Pramutyo said the task force will also visit other countries and investigate Indonesians on death row. “They will go to at least four countries — Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Singapore and China — and conduct a census of our citizens sentenced to death,” he added.

Once the census is conducted, the task force will handle cases of Indonesians on death row and try to at least get their sentences commuted to lighter ones, he said.

Yudhoyono has been quoted in a report as saying on Thursday that he would summon Indonesian ambassadors of the four countries to obtain accurate data on the total number of workers facing execution.

At least 27 Indonesian migrant workers are currently on death row in Saudi Arabia, according to a report.

In addition, Indonesia is working to deploy legal and human rights attachés at its embassies located in countries that have been facing problems with its workers.

Currently, the four main destination countries for women Indonesian workers are Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, China, and Singapore. Other Gulf countries have also been attracting a sizeable number of workers from Indonesia.

There are about 5 million Indonesians staying or working abroad, of which 1.5 million work in Saudi Arabia alone. More than 75 percent of Indonesians in the Kingdom are employed as housemaids.