Jakarta, Oct. 6 -- Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono called for a consistent implementation of an 8-hour workday for freight truck drivers to ensure their safety, health, and welfare.

"There is a regulation for it. Then again, sometimes even when the regulation already exists and has been well-studied, it is not enforced," he said in a press conference after a ministerial coordination meeting on overloaded vehicles here on Monday.

This was conveyed by the minister in response to a statement from the chairperson of the Indonesian Drivers' Empowerment Association (ARBPI), Ika Rostianti, who said that many drivers of logistics vehicles used illegal drugs to boost their stamina to dri...