The president has previously been criticised for ordering executions against convicted drug traffickers who were given the death penalty by courts.
President Joko Widodo of Indonesia wants a permanent end to drug peddling.
He says peddlers are destroying his people and he wants them shot if they refuse to be arrested peacefully.
The instruction is part of emergency efforts to tackle narcotic use in the South-East Asia nation.
“Be firm, especially to foreign drug dealers who enter the country and resist arrest,” Widodo told law enforcement officers on Monday.