Dasco: Classification of Ride-Hailing Drivers as Workers Still Being Simulated
Deputy Speaker of the House Sufmi Dasco Ahmad responded to one of the labour union demands regarding the classification of online motorcycle taxi (ojol) or digital platform workers’ status. Currently, online motorcycle taxi drivers only hold the status of applicator partners.
“Discussions on whether they become workers or partners are still being simulated,” Dasco said when receiving an audience from the Aliansi Gerakan Buruh Bersama Rakyat at the DPR complex in Jakarta on Friday, 1 May 2026.
He stated that the online motorcycle taxi group would be invited for dialogue to further discuss the demand for classification as workers. Dasco said he does not rule out the possibility that the May Day 2026 demand for welfare guarantees for ojol drivers will be realised.
This is because, he said, the government has purchased shares in applicators. This was done by the Badan Pengelola Danantara.
Through the government’s purchase of applicator shares, he said, the policy system for online motorcycles will be gradually but surely adjusted. For example, the fee taken by applicators will be reduced to less than 10 per cent.
“Applicators will only take 8 per cent of what is collected,” said the Daily Chairman of the Gerindra Party.
The demand to abolish the partnership practice implemented by digital platform companies, including online motorcycle taxi applicators, is seen as a new form of exploitation. President of the All-Indonesian Workers’ Union Association Mirah Sumirat said that digital platform workers are positioned as partners but are required to comply with company rules.
According to her, such partnership practices are in fact merely superficial. Because, she said, digital platform workers do not receive income certainty, including without adequate social security and labour protection.
“We demand that the state recognise digital platform workers as workers with clear status and equal rights,” Sumirat said on Friday, 1 May 2026.
In a separate opportunity, President Prabowo Subianto stated that he has signed a revenue-sharing regulation for online motorcycle taxi (ojol) drivers with applicator companies. In the new policy, ojol drivers receive a larger revenue share.
Prabowo announced this step in a speech during the International Labour Day or May Day celebration at the National Monument area in Jakarta on Friday, 1 May 2026. “The revenue sharing (originally) 80 per cent for drivers, now becomes at least 92 per cent for drivers,” he said in front of the labour masses.
The General Chairman of the Gerindra Party conveyed that the policy has been signed through Presidential Regulation No. 27 of 2026 on the Protection of Online Transportation Workers. With this regulation, online transportation applicator companies can only take an 8 per cent cut from drivers. Previously, applicators on average cut up to 20 per cent.
In addition, said Prabowo, Presidential Regulation No. 27 of 2026 also provides work accident guarantees. “BPJS Health, health insurance will be provided,” said the former Minister of Defence.