<![CDATA[Rural gig-type work remains weakly represented in social-protection research, which has largely focused on urban platform labor or conventional agricultural employment. This study examines how occupational precarity is experienced among ojek gabah workers in Bone Regency, Indonesia, and how administrative arrangements shape access to social protection. A qualitative case study design was used, with phenomenological attention to workers’ lived experiences. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 purposively selected informants: four ojek gabah workers, one landowning farmer/service user, one community leader, one village head, one BUMDes manager, one police representative, and one district Manpower Office representative; field observation provided contextual evidence. Precarity was organized through seasonal demand, task-based payment, discontinuous earnings, worker-provided motorcycles, and substantial occupational risk. The protection gap was located less in complete legal exclusion than in the transition from formal eligibility to administrative recognition and effective access, which was weakened by fluid occupational identities, incomplete worker data, limited scheme familiarity, and reliance on individual enrolment. Participants identified village government and BUMDes intermediation as a potentially feasible pathway for worker identification and collective enrolment, but the legal, financial, and operational viability of such arrangements remains untested. The study shows how rural non-platform gig work can become administratively difficult to recognize even where formal social-protection eligibility exists.]]>
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