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Indonesia’s Transport Ban Shows President’s Inability to Control Ministers

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Dec 23, 2015
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Indriaty Octarina was enraged when she found out that her favorite mode of transport, the popular Uber-style motorcycle taxi service Go-Jek, was temporarily declared illegal by Indonesian transport minister Ignasius Jonan last week until President Joko Widodo was forced to step in and countermand the order.

As a worker who must go through the traffic hel…

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