Curbing the Three-Wheeleds

The anti-pedicab operation in Jakarta has already claimed a victim. But the Jakarta Government will not back down. Is it true that pedicab drivers are hard to control?

August 21, 2001

MAMAT, a pedicab driver on Jalan Kramat V, Central Jakarta, got up from his sitting position when he saw a man headed for his pedicab. Here was a blessing. Without saying much, the father of six pedaled his pedicab hard towards a residential area, transporting the man. In less than five minutes, he had returned to his pedicab base. It turned out that the distance covered was only 200 meters or so. "It was only until that bend. He gave me a th

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