Tourists jump into rice field in Bali to help farmers and pose for picture dividing Aussies

Australians have been left divided after bikini-clad tourists were videoed jumping into a rice paddy to help farmers with their crops in Bali. 

The footage was uploaded to the Instagram page, Bali Living, and showed the tourists ankle-deep in mud as they helped with the farm work.

Half a dozen women are seen lending a hand while posing for pictures with locals prompting social media users to question if they were helping or getting in the way.

Footage shows both the locals and the tourists laughing with the farmers appearing happy and unbothered by the extra assistance.

The popular tourist destination has previously seen people attempt to get their five minutes of fame online by faking farm work.

Therefore, pessimistic social media users voiced their displeasure with the travellers interrupting the work of locals.

‘Beyond disrespectful making content out of underprivileged people as their prop,’ one person wrote.

‘All for the gram, disrespectful and careless,’ another added.

‘Reminds me of that viral bikini girl who got backlash staring at a rice farmer with a post about being grateful. They didn’t learn their lesson now they make the same old content,’ a third commented.

‘Poor hard working people from developing countries being treated like a prop for those rich influencer tourists.’ 

The comment refers to a 2019 post by tourist Natalie Schlater, who uploaded a photograph of herself in a bikini overlooking a rice field in Canggu, comparing her life to that of a rice picker in Bali.

‘Thinking about how different my life is from the man picking in the rice field every morning,’ the Instagrammer captioned the photo.

Looking deep into the distance, she appeared to watch on as a man is hard at work picking rice in the background. 

Half a dozen women are filmed planting seeds in between posing for pictures with the Balinese people leading people to question whether they are helping or just getting in the way

Many mentioned the case of Natalie Schlater who uploaded a photograph of herself in a bikini overlooking a rice field in Canggu comparing her life to that of a Bali rice picker

‘It is the epitome of the social media generation,’ one commented, while another sarcastically penned an alternate caption for the image: ‘Just thinking about how I’m so popular and rich and this guy is a rice farmer’.

However, other users said the bikini-clad girls were helping the farmers and it looked like the workers were happy they were there.

One person wrote: ‘I reckon they’re not bothered, you can hear laughter in the background too, it’s the locals who take pictures with them too, not the foreigners’.

‘They’re not making content, none of them are taking a picture,’ another added.

‘What’s wrong? They are helping at least,’ a third commented.