REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BATAM -- Four Indonesian migrant workers in Singapore were given the death penalty by a local court for their alleged involvement in homicide- and drugs-related cases, an official said.

"Currently, the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore is handling four death row cases, three cases related to the murder committed by a housemaid, and a drugs case," an official of consular affairs of the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore, Sukmo Yuwono, stated in a press release received here on Monday.

All cases related to murder have been handled by the embassy through local lawyers.

Moreover, 362 Indonesian nationals are undergoing their sentences of criminal cases in Singapore, he noted, adding that the Indonesian Embassy continues to pay them attention by visiting them in the prisons.

Since 2009, the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore has helped to free 11 citizens who faced the threat of either death penalty or life imprisonment of 10 to 20 years, Yuwono affirmed.

He also pointed out that in 2014, the embassy had helped to legalize the extension of work contracts for the 15,300 midwives working in Singapore as the minimum salary earned by a midwife last year was SGD$500.

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