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        "id": 1190285,
        "msgid": "taxi-passenger-assaulted-1447893297",
        "date": "1995-06-27 00:00:00",
        "title": "Taxi passenger assaulted",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Taxi passenger assaulted On Tuesday afternoon, June 6, 1995, at approximately 2.30 p.m., a colleague and I hailed a President taxi on Jl. Pecenongan in Central Jakarta. Our destination was Jl. Lautze near Pasar Baru. After we began our journey I noticed the meter was not yet started and politely reminded the driver to switch it on. He responded by asking us for Rp 5000 and refused to use the meter. Perhaps the fact that my friend and I are expats gave the driver an incentive to try to cheat us.",
        "content": "<p>Taxi passenger assaulted<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday afternoon, June 6, 1995, at approximately 2.30<br>\np.m., a colleague and I hailed a President taxi on Jl. Pecenongan<br>\nin Central Jakarta. Our destination was Jl. Lautze near Pasar<br>\nBaru. After we began our journey I noticed the meter was not yet<br>\nstarted and politely reminded the driver to switch it on. He<br>\nresponded by asking us for Rp 5000 and refused to use the meter.<br>\nPerhaps the fact that my friend and I are expats gave the driver<br>\nan incentive to try to cheat us.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we politely restated that we expected him to use the<br>\nmeter, as required by law. After he again refused, we requested<br>\nhe take us to the nearest police station to resolve the matter.<br>\nHe agreed, and as we drove towards Jl. Hayam Wuruk the driver,<br>\nrealizing he would gain nothing by going to the police, stopped<br>\nthe taxi and ordered us to get out.<\/p>\n<p>We again told him our destination, whereupon the driver<br>\nproduced a tire iron from underneath his seat and, to our utter<br>\ndisbelief, smashed my friend's left knee. The driver then got<br>\nout, opened my friend's door, pulled him out and began to assault<br>\nhim with his fists. Why? All because we had asked the driver to<br>\nuse his meter.<\/p>\n<p>Now hurt and badly shaken, my friend broke away from the<br>\nviolent, vulgar man only to have the driver strike my friend on<br>\nthe side of the head with the tire iron, producing torrents of<br>\nblood. A nearby policeman and satpam (security guard) were able<br>\nto assist us and detain the man, and we all eventually went to<br>\nPolda Metro Jaya (Jakarta Police office) where statements were<br>\ntaken by the police. He is currently in jail, but I wonder: Will<br>\nthis taxi driver once again be free to bully, terrorize and<br>\nassault other hapless passengers because they request the use of<br>\nthe meter in his vehicle as required by law?<\/p>\n<p>JOHN DI STEFANO<\/p>\n<p>Jakarta<\/p>",
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