In Reply to: For Baldy posted by dana on Thursday, 6. May 2010 at 09:28 Bali Time:
common sense response at last.
I have done it all ways.
With either Murti or Hadi or just through normally and sometimes a big advantage and sometimes not....it's the luck of the draw.
My 85 year old mother was delighted to be escorted through by Murtis contacts, travelling alone and brought outside to arrivals area for us to pick up.....a great relief for her.
As for "legalities", that is not for us to make judgement on, although people will always have personal views.
The services are openly offered, operated and run.
The people taking you through the procedure are airport officials and Murti / Hadi are simply the booking agents who look after the commercial and bookings side of the process.
This is Indonesians making their own decisions in Indonesia.
The only redeeming feature of all this is that nothing anyone says on this forum will make the slightest difference to the survival or otherwise of VIP services.
Indonesian alone will make that call.....just as it should be.