The Directorate General of Immigration of the Ministry of Immigration has exposed the case of one citizen of the United States (US) with the initials TK who was arrested for allegedly producing pornographic content in Indonesia and trading it online through social media (social media).
Acting (Plt) Director General of Immigration Yuldi Yusman explained that kindergarten has abused residence permits because the person concerned came to Indonesia with a residence permit for a visit, but instead produced pornographic and commercialized content.
"Currently, TK has been named a suspect and has been detained at the Class I State Detention Center in Central Jakarta since May 16, 2025," said Yuldi during a press conference exposing the case at the Office of the Directorate General of Immigration, Jakarta, Wednesday, May 21, which was confiscated by Antara.
This case stems from the cyber patrol of the Directorate General of Immigration on February 17, 2025, which found an upload on social media X from the @oliver_woodx account. The account contains advertisements for promoting paid pornographic video content.
Based on these findings, the Directorate of Immigration Supervision and Enforcement (Wasjakim) of the Directorate General of Immigration further explored the X account which is also connected to groups in the Telegram messaging application as a medium of communication and transactions.
"Furthermore, based on observations through face recognition that is integrated with our system, officers managed to identify the owner of the account. Based on the database we have, it was found that the owner of the account is a kindergarten," said Yuldi.
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From the results of the search, it is known that TK entered Indonesia on January 25, 2025, with the status of a residence permit for a visit. From Bangkok, Thailand, he landed at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali.
In Bali, kindergarten lives in a backpacking mode (backpacker). He is looking for prey to be used as an opponent to play in the porn video from entertainment venues. There are at least two Indonesian citizens (WNI) who are indicated to be victims.
TK was then secured on March 25, 2025 at Ngurah Rai Airport when he was about to travel to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Then, on April 9, 2025, TK was moved to Jakarta for further investigation and investigation.
Immigration confiscated evidence of electronic devices, such as cameras and other image recording devices, mobile phones, tablets, and external hard disks used by the perpetrators to store pornographic videos. From the evidence, hundreds of videos with amateur quality were found.
Based on digital forensic analysis of electronic devices confiscated from kindergarten, Immigration found that the account X @oliver_woodx belongs to TK. This finding is reinforced by the results of digital forensics carried out by the Directorate of Cyber Crime of the Police.
TK is now a suspect and detained after coordinating with the Attorney General's Office. Later, when the case file is complete, Immigration will send it to the Attorney General's Office for general criminal proceedings.
"If we have received the case file in Jampidum, we will carry out P21 (the notification that the results of the investigation are complete) as soon as possible for us to immediately transfer it to the court," said Head of Sub-Directorate for Pre-prosecution of the Directorate C Jampidum of the Attorney General's Office, Hadiman on the same occasion.
Meanwhile, in terms of immigration crimes, TK is suspected of violating Article 122 letter a of Law Number 6 of 2011 concerning Immigration for abusing or carrying out activities that are not in accordance with residence permits. He is threatened with imprisonment for a maximum of five years and a maximum fine of IDR 500 million.
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