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Blue Bird Says Taxis Can Still Grow Amid Competition From Uber

A Blue Bird Group taxi sits in traffic in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Friday, June 26, 2015. Blue Bird, Indonesia's largest taxi operator, operates about 28,900 vehicles, about three times its closest rival PT Express Transindo Utama.
Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg

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By Sterling Wong

December 6, 2017 at 8:46 AM UTC

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PT Blue Bird Group, Indonesia’s largest taxi operator, said conventional modes of public transport such as taxis still have room to grow even with the increasing popularity of new ride-hailing applications.

“People still need to have a safe, reliable and good value kind of public transport," said President Director Noni Purnomo in a Bloomberg Television interview in Jakarta Wednesday. “At the end of the day, we can all collaborate.”