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Online ride-hailing drivers eye cash rewards despite new fare regulations
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An online ride-hailing driver navigates his car to drop his customer off in West Jakarta on July 3. Transportation Ministry Regulation No. 26/2017 set the fares for online ride-hailing services like Uber, Grabcar and Go-Car at a minimum of Rp 3,500 per kilometer and a maximum of Rp 6,000 per km for Region I (Sumatra, Java, Bali). (JP/Seto Wardhana.)
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rivers of car-hailing services in Semarang, Central Java, said they are not worried about new fare regulations and are instead eyeing the cash rewards offered by management for meeting targets.
“I have witnessed the fare floor set in the range of Rp 2,500 to Rp 3,500 per kilometer by many companies since I joined the Go-Car online taxi service and they haven’t jeopardized my livelihood so far. I could still meet my order target and get the cash rewards,” Alvin, the driver, told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.
He said many online taxi drivers right now focus more on meeting the targets so they could claim their bonuses.
Bowo, another Go-Car driver, corroborated the statement, saying management would award every driver who could meet seven pick-up orders a day with Rp 75,000 and it would add another Rp 100,000 if the driver could add another three orders to the list. If the driver wants to work harder and managed to add another three pick-up orders, then he or she would be entitled to another bonus of Rp 125,000.
“So in total, if we could get 13 customers in a day, then you would pocket Rp 300,000 and that is still excluded the price that the customers have to pay for their trips,” he said.
Alvin acknowledged that getting 13 customers in a day isn’t that hard to achieve.
The comments were made in relation to the government's recent decision to introduce fare floors and ceilings for car-hailing services at between Rp 3,500 (26 US cents) and Rp 6,000 per kilometer on Java, Bali and Sumatra and between Rp 3,700 and Rp 6,500 in Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara, Maluku and Papua.(dic)
