So, after having seen only one small road incident with a motorbike lightly plowing into the back of a taxi, I was in a little dust-up of my own yesterday on the way to work. I have to admit that my directions could have been sooner for the taxi to turn (I'm trying to learn, but my Indonesian is still pretty basic), but without looking he geared left, and we had a motorbike scrape the side. The guy stopped, looked at his leg, his bike, then kept driving! Needless to say, I ended up giving the not-so-impressed driver a nice tip on arrival to try... Thankfully, with a million+ taxis, I probably won't have to worry about seeing him again... I threw on a video of morning traffic in Jakarta that I took when I first
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