Net Income Should Be Key Measure for New Ride-Hailing Revenue-Sharing Rules
The Garda Indonesia Online Motorcycle Taxi Drivers Association believes that drivers’ net income must be the main indicator of success in implementing the profit-sharing rules between online motorcycle taxi (ojol) drivers and app companies.
Garda Indonesia Chairman Raden Igun Wicaksono said the implementation of a maximum 8 percent revenue share for app operators and a minimum 92 percent for drivers, as stipulated in Presidential Regulation No. 27 of 2026 on the Protection of Online Transport Workers, cannot be judged solely by the change in percentage.
“The true measure of success is how much net income drivers actually receive after accounting for operational costs, order volume, trip fares, incentives, service fees, and various other economic mechanisms within the app ecosystem,” Igun said when contacted by ANTARA in Jakarta on Friday.
According to him, changing the share from around 80 percent to a minimum of 92 percent mathematically increases driver income from each trip at the same fare. However, the income drivers receive is still influenced by various other factors.
Therefore, monitoring the implementation of the revenue-sharing rule should not focus only on the percentage deducted by app operators, but also on the entire mechanism that determines driver income.
“We certainly welcome reports of drivers whose income has doubled or even tripled. But for Garda Indonesia, those figures must be the starting point for a more serious evaluation,” Igun said.
He also urged the government to build a national evaluation system to periodically assess the impact of implementing Perpres 27/2026.
Igun said such an evaluation should at least measure the real impact of the rule on ojol drivers.
He listed the impact indicators that need to be evaluated: drivers’ gross and net income, the actual revenue-sharing percentage, average trip fares, number of orders per day, service fees charged to consumers, incentives and bonuses, changes in operational costs, and app operators’ compliance with the 8 percent maximum deduction limit.
President Prabowo Subianto has said the government has created a rule to establish a fairer profit-sharing arrangement between online motorcycle taxi drivers and app companies.
Prabowo said that through the policy, the share of income received by drivers has increased from 80 percent to 92 percent.
“We have also regulated a fairer profit-sharing arrangement for online motorcycle taxi drivers and app operators,” President Prabowo said in a speech at the 2026 Annual Session of the People’s Consultative Assembly and the Joint Session of the House of Representatives and the Regional Representatives Council at the MPR/DPR building.
President Prabowo said the policy is part of the government’s effort to ensure ojol drivers receive a more decent share of the fruits of their labour.