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The 76-year-old president is notorious for his crackdown on illegal drugs.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the shutdown to start on 26 April.
“We could not win the war on drugs through killing petty criminals and addicts,” a former Colombian president wrote in a warning to President Duterte.
The army says it has killed at least 89 ISIS fighters as they take back territory from the militants in Marawi.
The controversial president struggles with smoking-related health issues.
And that he would do it again if he came across a public official misusing funds.
The 71-year-old Philippines president said he used to personally kill people when mayor of Davao.
Proposals include restoring the death penalty and lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 9.
Rodrigo Duterte has since apologised, sort of.
Rodrigo Duterte is not impressed with the US president’s criticism of his war on drugs.
Duterte won the presidential election in May after he promised to wage a bloody war on drugs.