Australian embassy officials in Jakarta have been called to a meeting with the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday, as two Australians await news on their execution.

A spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop confirmed the meeting and said a number of other diplomatic missions were also invited.

Indonesia's Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir said Monday's meeting would advise staff from foreign embassies about procedures, including the 72 hours notification that Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran would be given before their planned executions this month.

Several other foreigners are also on the list to be killed.

News of the meeting came as Prime Minister Tony Abbott stepped up calls for Indonesia to show mercy to the two Australians facing execution in Bali for drug smuggling.

Indonesian prison and security authorities were set to make preparations on Friday for the executions of Chan and Sukumaran, but the meeting did not go ahead.

Mr Abbott has again urged for clemency for the pair, saying Australia expects Indonesia to respond to its request the same way it expects other countries to respond.

"My plea, even at this late stage, is for Indonesia to be as responsive to us as it expects other countries to be to them when they plead for the lives of their citizens on death row overseas," he said.

Australia has been reluctant to recall its ambassador because it wants to keep communication channels open.

But Mr Abbott said the Government would find ways of making its displeasure known if the executions go ahead.

He also warned that Australians would be angry considering the aid money given to Indonesia following the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004.

Permission was granted on Thursday for Chan and Sukumaran to be transferred from Kerobokan prison in preparation for the executions, but on Saturday the Australian lawyer for the pair said he had no information about the transfer.

"There's been a lot of talk in the media about whether they have to move or not. I have no knowledge of that," Julian McMahon said from outside Kerobokan.

"In the meantime, we have filed our court hearing in Jakarta in the Administrative Court and we expect that case to follow the usual course, so that is what our focus is on at the moment."

United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon also appealed to Indonesia not to execute the prisoners, with a UN spokesman saying Mr Ban had spoken with Indonesian foreign minister Retno Marsudi to express his concern at the recent application of capital punishment.

Mr Ban's plea covers citizens from Australia, Brazil, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria and the Philippines - he said the United Nations opposes the death penalty.

Australian holidaymakers could boycott Bali: Bishop

The Prime Minister's comments follow Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's suggestion that Australian holidaymakers could boycott Bali.

"I've been overwhelmed with emails and text messages. I know that people have been staging vigils and rallies," she told Fairfax Radio on Friday.

"I hope that the Indonesian government doesn't underestimate the Australian public's opinion on this.

"We are increasing our representations at a higher level, including the Governor General, the Prime Minister, the Attorney General, a number of Australian officials, Australian business people are making representations to their counterparts in Indonesia," she said.

Ms Bishop and her opposition counterpart Tanya Plibersek both made impassioned pleas for Chan and Sukumaran's lives in Parliament on Thursday.

Ms Bishop told Parliament that Australia's efforts to seek a reprieve for Bali Nine drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were no different to Indonesia's attempts to save the lives of its own citizens sentenced to death in overseas courts.

Ms Plibersek, the deputy Labor leader, drew on her personal experiences to bolster Australia's argument against their execution.

Her speech touched on the death of her brother in Papua New Guinea in 1997 and her husband Michael Coutts-Trotter's rehabilitation after he served time in jail for drug dealing.