This morning, hundred of people wearing green jackets emblazoned with the Go-Jek logo filled a narrow alleyway in the Asem Baris neighborhood of Tebet, South Jakarta.
As reported by Detik, about 200 drivers for the motorcycle taxi service came out to a funeral home in Tebet to mourn a fellow driver, 30-year-old Riyadi, who died during an accident yesterday.
Detik talked to one of the drivers, 40-year-old Amar, who said he usually hung around the area of SCBD but came out to Tebet to pay his respects to Sugeng, despite the fact that he did not know him personally.
“Even though I did not know him, because of the solidarity between our fellow Go-Jek drivers, my friends and I agreed to meet near Pasar Tebet and continue on here to the funeral home,” Amar said, adding that he heard about Sugeng’s tragic death through Whatsapp.
Many of the drivers echoed Amar, saying that they did not know Sugeng, as he had only joined the company about a week ago. But they wanted to come out to pay their respects, even if it meant losing out on orders.
According to his cousin Sutomo, Sugeng died as a result of the accident at 12:30 am Monday morning, though he did not pass away until 2:35pm Monday afternoon.
Detik reported that the number of Go-Jek drivers coming to pay their respects to Sugeng continued to grow throughout the morning, with many having to move their motorcycles because they were blocking the increasingly narrow alleyway by the funeral home.
