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On a recent morning driving his motorbike for one of Asia’s fastest-growing tech start-ups, Nasrun picked up and dropped off four schoolchildren, an office worker, medicine from a pharmacy, some dumplings with peanut sauce, a few documents and an order of Japanese food, the last of which he took to a woman at the Indonesia Stock Exchange.

For his colleague Irawan, the workday started at midnight. He ferried someone home, then delivered an order of KFC. Around 4 am, he picked up a clubgoer so wobbly with drink that Irawan had to use one hand to steer and the other to