{"id":2365,"date":"2016-03-22T14:50:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T06:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/22\/10000-angry-cabbies-brought-jakarta-to-a-standstill\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T06:50:35","slug":"10000-angry-cabbies-brought-jakarta-to-a-standstill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/22\/10000-angry-cabbies-brought-jakarta-to-a-standstill\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 angry cabbies brought Jakarta to a standstill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A massive protest on Tuesday morning paralysed traffic in downtown Jakarta.<\/p>\n

10,000 taxi drivers came out in a planned protest<\/a> against ride-hailing apps like Uber and Grab, which they say have taken business away from them by encroaching on their space.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The drivers blocked traffic down main roads with their cars, and the sheer size of the mob also prevented cars from moving past the blockages.<\/span><\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Indonesia moves to ban taxi apps, as China tries to legalize them<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The protest, which is five times the size of a similar one last week<\/a>, was meant to be fairly orderly and had sought police permission before being staged, but reports and social media accounts say it ended up turning violent.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More about Protest<\/a>, Taxi<\/a>, Ride Hailing Apps<\/a>, Grab<\/a>, and Uber<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A massive protest on Tuesday morning paralysed traffic in downtown Jakarta. 10,000 taxi drivers came out in a planned protest against ride-hailing apps like Uber and Grab, which they say have taken business away from them by encroaching on their … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1625,1398,1624,1623,842],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-grab","tag-protest","tag-ride-hailing-apps","tag-taxi","tag-uber"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}