Ojol And Jabodetabek Courier Take To The Streets, Avoid Protest-Prone Points In Jakarta

Illustration of traffic engineering (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - General Chairperson of the Two-wheeled Transportation Drivers Association, Igun Wicaksono, appealed to online motorcycle taxi users (ojol) to avoid the area around Medan Merdeka, Central Jakarta regarding ojol and courier actions throughout Jabodetabek which will be held on Thursday, August 29 afternoon.

"The action will be carried out around 12.00 WIB until it is finished or at 17.00 WIB, please users of ojol and courier services around the location of the action in the Medan Merdeka Street area and its surroundings while not making an order first," he said when contacted in Jakarta, Thursday, August 29.

Igun said the appeal was conveyed to avoid unwanted things, both for drivers and customers.

He added that the actions that will be carried out at three points, namely the Merdeka Palace, the Gojek office around the Petojo area, Central Jakarta and the Grab office around Cilandak, South Jakarta, will likely make it difficult for service users to order (order). Especially when the action starts Thursday afternoon at the Merdeka Palace.

Therefore, Igun appealed to service users to order two hours before the action or a maximum of 10.00 WIB.

"Please if you want an order to use ojol services to be carried out two hours before the action, which is a maximum of 10.00 WIB," he said.

As for the location of other actions around Jakarta, service orders are predicted to continue to run normally as usual.

The online motorcycle taxi community (ojol) and couriers throughout Jabodetabek will hold an action with the action route of the Merdeka Palace, the Gojek office around the Petojo area, Central Jakarta and the Grab office around Cilandak, South Jakarta.

The action will be followed by around 500-1,000 ojol drivers from various communities in Jabodetabek. This action was carried out to demand the welfare of ojol drivers who are increasingly depressed by application companies and at the same time ask the government to pay attention to ojol drivers and couriers.

The reason is, the partners of online transportation application companies are currently illegal without a legal standing in the form of a law.

Ojol drivers assess that with the absence of legal standing for ojol drivers, application companies can do arbitrarily without any solutions from the platform and without being given strict sanctions by the government.

A number of roads in several areas of Jakarta will experience congestion due to online ojol demonstrations and couriers. The following include:

1. Several roads towards the Merdeka Palace2. The road around the Gojek office in the Petojo area, Central Jakarta3. The road around the Grab office in the Cilandak area, South Jakarta