{"id":2460,"date":"2011-08-04T21:33:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T13:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2011-08-04T21:33:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T13:33:16","slug":"indonesian-bicycle-taxis-face-uphill-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/indonesian-bicycle-taxis-face-uphill-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian bicycle taxis face uphill battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/video\/asia-pacific\/2011\/07\/2011730151514108914.html\">http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ojeks&#8221;, or bicycle taxis, were once a common sight in Indonesia&#8217;s capital, Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p>But as cars and buses have become cheaper, the ojek transport industry\u00a0has\u00a0gone into decline, and there are now just a few hundred riders left.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera caught up with one of the riders who is\u00a0finding it difficult to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"680\" height=\"420\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lkgPtvMuZj8\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"680\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lkgPtvMuZj8\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bicycle is anti-pollution but the rest of the vehicles are not. we are just right behind them!&#8221; \u00a0Said the bicycle taxi rider.<\/p>\n<p>The last\u00a0sentence touches me the most:\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;I want to just enjoy my life, just let it flow!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net &#8220;Ojeks&#8221;, or bicycle taxis, were once a common sight in Indonesia&#8217;s capital, Jakarta. But as cars and buses have become cheaper, the ojek transport industry\u00a0has\u00a0gone into decline, and there are now just a few hundred riders left. Al Jazeera caught up with one of the riders who is\u00a0finding it difficult to make ends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-release","7":"category-pollution"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}