48 Wening Mustika and Amalinda Savirani WENING MUSTIKA AND AMALINDA SAVIRANI This article shows how motorcycle taxi drivers in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, deal with labour insecurity, tighter competition, minimum social welfare, de- drivers employ diverse strategies to obtain more orders and therefore also more income. Drivers use prohibited mobile application-based technologies, which resemble those of their platforms, as well as non-technological strat- egies to boost their account’s performance. The article argues that whereas these prohibited practices can be understood as ‘everyday resistance’ (Scott 1985), as oppositional acts against the holders of power and capital, they are also pragmatic survival tactics. Furthermore, the article shows that although the drivers’ resistance is about individual acts, their knowledge and strategies are sourced and shared collectively through social media platforms. Being widely distributed between drivers and commonly applied by drivers, these strategies have nonetheless not been able to transform driver-company rela- Keywords: algorithm The world economy has become increasingly coordinated and integrat- ed into a ‘platform capitalism’ that operates within the digital economy (Srnicek 2017). In this context, the word ‘platform’ refers to companies that convey customers’ demands to ‘independent contractors’ (or ‘part- ners’) through mobile phone applications (apps), which positions the contractors with minimum workers’ rights. These contractors serve as This article can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v39i1.6175.