Indonesia's traffic nightmare a dream for 'ojeks'

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Jakarta's crippling traffic jams cost the Indonesian capital billions of dollars a year, but there's one group of battling businessmen who thrive in the smog-filled streets - drivers of the city's "ojek" motorcycle taxis.

The appalling traffic problem is an opportunity for thousands of ojek drivers across the teeming city of around 10 million people, so much so it is attracting the attention of entrepreneurs such as Nadiem Makarim.

Makarim, 27, graduated from Harvard with a master's in business administration and, upon returning to his homeland, decided there was money to be made out of Jakarta's traffic nightmare.