Bali's governor says he doubts Australians will boycott his tourist island in protest over the imminent executions of Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
Mangku Pastika says he believes Australians respect Indonesia's autonomy and understand the damage drugs do to the country.
"I don't think so (that Bali would be boycotted) because Australians ... I know they respect the authority of a country, our nation," he told reporters on Monday.
The two Australians convicted of smuggling heroin are expected to be transferred this week to Nusakambangan island in Central Java, where their executions are to take place.
Officials say they are already in the stage of preparing the executions, which will take place by firing squad.
The governor is pro-death penalty but has asked that the men not be executed in Bali.
General Pastika cited figures by the National Narcotics Board (BNN), which he used to head, that suggest 50 people every day die drug-related deaths in Indonesia.
"It's so, so dangerous," he said.
"That's why I don't think it's against human rights because it kills so many people as well, the drugs problem."
General Pastika defended the research amid expert findings that it was inaccurate.
He says it was conducted by the "prominent" University of Indonesia.
However, the researcher has told AAP the survey now being used to justify the blanket denial of clemency to drug offenders was never intended to give anything but a general picture of drug use in Indonesia.
Asked about the fact Chan and Sukumaran were taking drugs out of Indonesia, General Pastika said: "We don't know that, the fact is we arrested them here."
Australian embassy officials attended a Jakarta meeting on Monday where Indonesia conveyed the formalities in its plan to execute the men.
Indonesia's Foreign Ministry invited all embassies with citizens to be executed.
The meeting detailed discussions on the provision of 72 hours notice, access to prisoners for family, and the logistics of foreign media coverage.
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