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Health Ministry Regulation No. 9/2020 on the guidelines for large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) stipulates various restrictions, including the ban on ojek services for passengers. However, ojek drivers are still permitted to transport goods.
Associations of app-based ojek (motorcycle taxi) drivers have demanded compensation from the government for their projected losses from the implementation of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in Jakarta aimed to breaking the chain of COVID-19 infection in the capital city.
A e-ticketing system is having a limited impact on roads of Jakarta, with hundreds of traffic offenses logged in the first days after police set up clever cameras to catch motorcyclists violating the rules.
Officials have conceded that one of the causes of traffic disruption in the area is the presence of app-based ojek (motorcycle taxi) and is working on a system to organize them and ease congestion.
People in 88 cities across the country will need to fork out more for hailing ojek (motorbike taxis) through their smartphones starting on Friday, as a policy to secure drivers’ income is expanded beyond the country’s main urban centers.
Hundreds of online taxi-drivers set fire to a tire in front of ride-hailing service company Go-Jek’s Headquarters in South Jakarta on Monday, as they staged a protest demanding the return of old incentive-system which they deemed was able to provide them more bonuses.
With most of their time spent on the road, many drivers from both homegrown firm Gojek and Malaysia-based ride-hailing service Grab have forged a bond in the form of organized communities with the main purpose of looking out for each other.
