Execution is awaiting at least 20 female and male workers...

Execution is awaiting at least 20 female and male workers from Indonesia (Cianjur) in the Middle East for committing serious crimes, according to Dedeh Saryamah, Vice Chairman of the Cianjur Legislative Assembly. Sarymah said the government, including the Workers Recruitment and Dispatch Association, should monitor such reports and developments as in many such cases legal aid, especially from Indonesia, was often too late. Usually legal aid was provided only after the courts pronounced death sentences. Kohar Effendi of the Cianjur Legal Aid Institute admitted the delay in providing legal aid to Indonesian workers abroad. "We are often confronted with difficulties in monitoring such cases in foreign countries," Kohar said, adding that normally such cases surfaced only after wide media coverage.