East Java Police Arrest Child Porn Site Maker, Profit Per Month IDR 96 Million

BETWEEN/HO-Polda East Java

East Java Police arrested a man with the initials AAS (34), the perpetrator of making immoral video pages for minors operating since 2020 with a profit of IDR 1 billion.

"The perpetrator spread pornographic content through the self-made website (laman). There were as many as 280 websites of pornographic content for minors," said Director of Criminal Investigation at the East Java Police, Kombes Lutfie Sulistiwan when releasing the case at the East Java Police Headquarters, Surabaya, as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, June 6.

Lutfie explained that the perpetrator of AASyang from Malang, East Java, benefited from an advertisement per thousand clicks of 0.7 US dollars. This profit was obtained from a total statistic of 140 million people with more than 5 billion visitors towebsites.

"From the examination, the profit was around 6,000 US dollars or around Rp. 96 million per month," said Lutfie.

To the investigators who examined, the perpetrator AAS admitted that he was self-taught to make a website. For four years, AAS has made around 26 thousand immoral video content for minors.

"The perpetrator got the pornographic video content from another websiteporino," he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Cyber Sub-Directorate of the Ditreskrimsus Polda Jatim AKBP Police Charles P. Tampubolon added that the perpetrators of AAS acted alone in uploading the immoral video of the minor.

"Websitepelaku ini tidak perlu menggunakan VPN untuk bisa diakses dan mengunduh video yang dipilih," jelasnya.

From the hands of the perpetrators, the police confiscated evidence of a computer set, smartphones, web hosting, email, and apaypall account. In addition, the police also closed 280 accounts of the perpetrator's website.

For his actions, the perpetrator of AAS was charged with Article 45 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 27 Paragraph (1) of Law Number 11 Year 2008 concerning Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE), as well as Article 29 in conjunction with Article 4 of Law Number 44 Year 2008 concerning Pornography.

"The threat is a sentence of 12 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 6 billion," he said.