Ministry Of Transportation Evaluation Of Online Ojek Attribute Distribution

JAKARTA - This morning, at around 08.45 WIB a suicide bombing took place at the Medan Police, North Sumatra. According to information, the bombing was carried out by someone who used the online motorcycle taxi (ojol) attribute.

Although it is not certain, whether the perpetrator was really an ojol driver or not. However, the fact is that the ojol attribute is sold freely in the community. Not only on online buying and selling sites, there are also some stalls on the edge that sell them.

The Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) as the regulator also plans to call online motorcycle taxi service providers, namely Grab and Gojek. According to the plan, the Ministry of Transportation will evaluate the distribution of ojol attributes in the market.

"Judging from what happened, the Ministry of Transportation will summon applicators to raise awareness. First to evaluate the recruitment process and monitoring of active members and members," said Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Wednesday, November 13.

According to Budi Karya, the Ministry of Transportation has a role to oversee the safety and security of passengers as well as online motorcycle taxi partners. The regulations are formally regulated in Ministerial Regulation Number 12 of 2019 concerning Safety Protection of Motorcycle Users.

Moreover, the use of online motorcycle taxi jackets or uniforms for acts of terrorism is a new phenomenon that needs to be anticipated in the future. "So we will evaluate everything, even though he uses the ojol attribute, there are ways to get it. So for self-correction, we at the Ministry of Transportation are in the process for safety," he continued.

In a separate location, Chairman of the Two-Wheeled Action Joint Presidium (Guard) Igun Wicaksono said that the use of the motorcycle taxi jackets worn by terrorists had caused unrest among online motorcycle taxi drivers. Not to mention the public's concern about online motorcycle taxis that are delivering goods to public locations.

"We are worried that we will become the subject of suspicion from the public and building management if we have to deliver goods or deliver food to locations that are indeed public places," said Igun at the Garda Headquarters, Jakarta.

According to him, the perpetrator is an irresponsible person because he uses the ojol attribute which is thought to be from an on-demand application-based company Grab. He does not deny that the online motorcycle taxi attribute is very easily obtained by the public.

"The attributes of online motorcycle taxis, such as jackets, are indeed not regulated, they have to be sold specifically for online motorcycle taxis. Anyone can buy them," he added.

Igun hopes that there will be participation from application companies, Grab and Gojek, to issue regulations that regulate and also tighten the buying and selling of ojol attributes so that irresponsible parties will not use them.

Even so, Igun appealed to online motorcycle taxi drivers to remain calm and active as usual in providing better services to the public.

"We urge the public to remain calm, just leave all of this to the police because until now the perpetrator is still not known whether he is a party of ojol or this act of terrorism used the attributes of ojol to carry out this suicide bombing," he said.