TEMPO.CO, Bandung - The West Java Transportation Agency has submitted a recommendation letter to be listed in the draft of the new transportation ministerial decree regulating online taxis. “We have sent recommendations underscoring equality and fairness,” said the agency head, Dedy Taufik, in Bandung, Friday, November 9.

Dedi explained the recommendations were discussed by transition team established by the Transportation Agency. The discussion involved multiple parties, including conventional taxis, online taxis, and academics. The team’s study was then used as a basis of the recommendation letter sent to the Transportation Ministry.

There were at least four issues expected to be regulated in the new policy, viz. quota limitation, the limit on operational areas, special motor vehicle number plates (TNKB), and tariffs.

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Dedi opined rules regarding online taxi issues should be regulated in a higher policy: a presidential decree. “[The issue should not be regulated in] Ministerial Decree, but a presidential decree as it can be named as Omnibus Regulation because it contains several rules of ministries,” he noted.

Should the policy be issued as a ministerial decree, Dedy feared, it would later be challenged. The public trial of the draft to replace Ministerial Decree No. 108 has commenced today in Bandung, November 12.

AHMAD FIKRI (CONTRIBUTOR)