In Reply to: porters posted by bagussekali on Saturday, 20. August 2011 at 01:35 Bali Time:
When you're leaving, you don't want to be hot and flustered carrying bags and worrying about finding tickets, passports and the like. Having porters frees you up to organise your money, documents etc and 10 000rp/bag is a small price to pay for being able to do this.