Motorcycle taxi

A Ojek is the dominant in the western part of Java's name for a motorcycle rental with driver. In Indonesia, a Ojek is a common and frequently used type of passenger transport.

The price includes the driver and depends on travel time and / or distance traveled. There is no uniform pricing, the fares are regional, but also very individual. Generally Ojeks are considerably more expensive than in the province in large cities such as Bandung, Jakarta and Surabaya. The driver of Ojeks are exclusively men, earning the independent institutions with their service to their livelihood for themselves and possibly their family.

Ojeks have in the population do not always have the best reputation, as they of their passengers as well as commercially exploit criminal to a greater extent than about the state organized Anggkotafahrer, ignorance. Ojeks are usually organized into groups to Ojek stations where they make passers-by attention to themselves by shouting or waving.