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"Uber, Grab are app companies. If they want (to operate), they
have to partner with a transportation business entity, like a
car rental company," Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan told
reporters.
The proliferation of cheap taxis using ride-hailing apps Grab
and Uber in gridlocked Jakarta has made the traditional pick-up
and drop-off taxi services unprofitable, threatening the
business models of the country's top taxi firms.
Indonesian cabbies clashed with drivers working for online apps
on Tuesday, pulling them off their bikes and assaulting them as
thousands of drivers took to the streets of Jakarta calling for
a ban on ride-hailing apps like Grab and Uber.
(Reporting by Bernadette Christina Munthe; Editing by Nick
Macfie)
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