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Revised online taxi regulation to be enforced on Nov. 1
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An online ride-hailing driver drops off a customer in West Jakarta on July 3. (JP/Seto Wardhana.)
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he Transportation Ministry has said it has finished revising a ministerial regulation on ride-hailing applications and that it will be sent to the Law and Human Rights Ministry immediately to be recorded as a state document.
“Hopefully, the revised regulation will be sent to the Law and Human Rights Ministry tonight,” said Transportation Ministry acting director general for land transportation Hindro Surahmat in Jakarta on Monday as reported by kompas.com.
He said the regulation would come into force on Nov. 1.
Read also: Govt to impose harsher punishment for online taxisThe ministry had organized public consultations in a number of regions to find a solution to the disputed ride-hailing app regulation, following the annulment of 14 articles of Transportation Ministry Regulation No. 26/2017 on the operation of non-route public transportation by the Supreme Court in August.
Operators and drivers of conventional taxis protested the emergence of several ride-hailing application providers that they believed had jeopardized their businesses because of unfair competition with the online services.
In the revised regulation, Hindro said, the ministry had added several requirements, including installing a meter in each vehicle, abiding by floor and ceiling prices, requiring operators to have at least five vehicles and showing evidence of vehicle ownership.
Hindro added the ministry would soon distribute stickers to be attached on the front windows of online ride-hailing vehicles, but the stickers could not be distributed immediately, pending the allocation of a vehicle quota for each region. (bbn)
