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Why Grab and Gojek drivers fear Baliโ€™s โ€˜no-go zonesโ€™

โ€œI cannot come to you,โ€ Katie Williams was told, seconds after her Grab driver had accepted her request for a ride in Canggu. โ€œI cannot come to you. You need to come meet me.โ€ Williams, an Australian tourist in her mid-thirties, explained through the app that her elderly parents struggled to walk very far in the hot Bali sun. The driverโ€™s reply was blunt: โ€œItโ€™s too dangerous. I cannot come.โ€ After two more cancellations, she eventually relented and paid a local driver twice the original...