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Cileungsi, Bogor Regency, Indonesia: photographs of private-school pupils taken from social media were turned into AI pornographic images and videos, reportedly since 2025; three pupils have filed a joint police report, the victims' lawyer says hundreds were affected, and two former pupils are named as suspects

Bogor Regency police confirmed on 18 September 2026 that they are investigating a report that pupils of a private school in Cileungsi had their faces edited with artificial intelligence into pornographic content. The head of the women-and-children unit told Kumparan that so far three pupils had reported in a single police report, that the case began when a victim heard from a friend that someone was making content with their face using AI technology, and that investigators were still establishing who made the content and which program was used, under the Electronic Information and Transactions Law. A lawyer for the witnesses, quoted by Pojok Bogor and Uzone, says the victims number in the hundreds; that two former pupils, one as initiator and one as maker, have been reported and admitted the acts to witnesses; that police found thousands of suspected AI-manipulated photos and videos on a suspect's phone, some uploaded to websites including an online-gambling site; and that the case, reported on 19 May 2026, is believed to have run since 2025 while all involved were still pupils, some victims now being university students. Police say the case is at an early stage and asked the public not to draw conclusions.

AI System

AI image- and video-manipulation tools (not identified; police say the program used is still being traced)

Occurred

2025

Reported

19 May 2026

Event location

Indonesia

Platform

other

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. Police describe the content as made with AI technology and say they are still tracing the program used; the victims' lawyer describes AI-manipulated nude photos and pornographic videos, and thousands of suspected AI-manipulated files found on a suspect's phone. No tool is named and no forensic finding has been published.

AI-to-person relation

  • Depicted or impersonated the person

Core relations are communication, acting on someone’s behalf, and depiction or impersonation. Decision and claim relations are retained as contextual cases.

Someone else’s AI use. Settings: Education, Privacy.

Claim status: Reported

Polres Bogor is investigating a report that pupils in Cileungsi had their faces edited with AI into pornographic content; three pupils have reported in one police report, and police are still identifying the maker and the program used.

Causal attribution: Police statement; the police attribute nothing yet to a named person.

  • News report (supports): 'Ratusan pelajar di Cileungsi, Kabupaten Bogor, diedit pakai AI dan dijadikan konten pornografi. Kasus itu kini diselidiki kepolisian.'; 'Sejauh ini yang di kami baru lapor tiga orang, tapi satu laporan, kita masih dalami kasus tersebut termasuk si pembuat kontennya siapa'

Claim status: Reported

According to the witnesses' lawyer, hundreds of pupils of a private school in Cileungsi had photographs taken from their social-media accounts manipulated into nude photographs and pornographic videos, some uploaded to websites including an online-gambling site.

Causal attribution: Lawyer's account of the scale; police confirm only the three complainants and the AI-edited content.

  • News report (supports): 'ratusan pelajar sekolah swasta di Cileungsi Bogor menjadi korban deepfake AI dimana wajah mereka dimanipulasi dan diubah menjadi konten tidak senonoh'; 'pelaku mencuri foto korban dari akun media sosial masing-masing pelajar'; 'ada beberapa website yang sudah pernah diunggah seperti website judol dan lain-lain'
  • News report (supports): 'kasus bermula setelah korban mendapat informasi dari temannya bahwa ada seseorang yang diduga membuat konten menggunakan wajahnya melalui teknologi AI'

Claim status: Reported

Two former pupils have been reported as suspects, in the roles of initiator and content maker, and are said by the lawyer to have admitted the acts to witnesses; police reportedly found thousands of suspected AI-manipulated photos and videos on a suspect's phone.

Causal attribution: Allegations relayed by the victims' lawyer; no charge announced.

  • News report (supports): 'Kepolisian sudah mengantongi dua nama yang dilaporkan sebagai pelaku'; 'sebagai inisiator dan pembuat konten'; 'pelaku mengakui saat ditanya'; 'menemukan adanya ribuan foto serta video yang diduga hasil manipulasi AI di smartphone milik terduga pelaku'

Claim status: Reported

The case was reported to police on 19 May 2026 and is believed to have run since 2025 while all involved were pupils; the suspects have since graduated and some victims are now university students.

Causal attribution: Timeline as reported by Uzone/Pojok Bogor.

  • News report (supports): 'Meski baru dilaporkan pada 19 Mei 2026, kasus ini diduga sudah berlangsung semenjak 2025 lalu, bahkan saat semua pihak (termasuk pelaku) masih berstatus pelajar'; 'terduga pelaku disebut telah lulus dari sekolah, beberapa korban masih berstatus pelajar dan beberapa lainnya sudah berstatus mahasiswa'

Claim status: Reported

Police say the investigation is at an early stage, that they must establish with clear evidence who made the content under the ITE Law, and that tracing the AI program used is a challenge.

Causal attribution: Police statement.

  • News report (supports): 'Kita tidak bisa berasumsi saja, harus jelas, apalagi ini terkait Undang-Undang ITE, harus tahu benar dia yang membuat atau tidak, harus ada buktinya yang jelas'; 'penanganan perkara masih berada pada tahap awal'

What remains unknown

  • The number of victims is disputed in scale: police count three complainants, the lawyer says hundreds.
  • The AI tools used are not identified.
  • No arrest, charge or court proceeding is reported; the suspects' admissions are relayed by the lawyer, not confirmed by police.
  • The school is not named in the inspected reports and is not recorded here.
  • The Pojok Bogor original article (16-17 September 2026) was not directly read; its account is taken from Uzone's relay.
Source reading, translation and location

News report · id · Source inspected

Read in Indonesian on 2026-09-19 (Kumparan, 18 September 2026; quotes the Polres Bogor unit head by phone). Quotations translated by the reviewer.

News report · id · Source inspected

Read in Indonesian on 2026-09-19 (Uzone, relaying Pojok Bogor of 17 September 2026 and the witnesses' lawyer). The Pojok Bogor original was not fetched; grouped as one lawyer-account chain.

Event countries: Indonesia. Affected-person countries: Indonesia. Court countries: Unknown.

Private school in Cileungsi, Bogor Regency, West Java; Polres Bogor investigating (Kumparan, Uzone). No court proceeding yet.

Reviewed for publication 2026-09-19: Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an image-based-abuse series against school pupils with a police-confirmed report and a lawyer-described scale, read in Indonesian from two chains (police via Kumparan; the victims' lawyer via Uzone/Pojok Bogor). Claims recorded as reported; the scale is attributed. Minors: no names, no school name, suspects' initials omitted; no imagery described beyond 'nude photographs and pornographic videos'.

What Happened

Police account (Kumparan, 18 September 2026). The head of the women-and-children protection unit of Polres Bogor said that 'so far only three have reported, in one report' and that police were still examining the case, including who made the content. The case began when a victim was told by a friend that someone was suspected of making content using their face through AI technology; the pupil reported it. Police are collecting evidence under the ITE Law and said they cannot assume, must be certain who made the content, and face the challenge of tracing the technology or program used. The unit head asked the public not to jump to conclusions while the investigation is at an early stage.

Victims' lawyer's account (Pojok Bogor, relayed by Uzone, 17 September 2026). A lawyer for the witnesses said the victims 'number in the hundreds', all pupils of a private school in Cileungsi. The perpetrators are said to have taken photographs from the pupils' own social-media accounts and manipulated them into nude photographs and pornographic videos. Police hold two reported names, said to have had different roles as initiator and content maker; the lawyer says both admitted the acts when asked by witnesses. Police reportedly found thousands of suspected AI-manipulated photos and videos on a suspect's phone, some of which had been uploaded to websites including an online-gambling site; the uploads still need investigation of the digital trail and accounts. Although reported only on 19 May 2026, the activity is believed to have run since 2025, when all involved, including the suspects, were pupils; the suspects have since graduated, some victims are still pupils and others are now university students. The lawyer asked for a swift process so the victims could go on to university and focus on their studies.

Limits. The 'hundreds' figure is the lawyer's claim, not a police count; the police count is three complainants. The suspects' initials published in the press are not recorded here. The school is not named in the inspected reports.

Reported harm

Pupils of a Cileungsi private school had their social-media photographs turned into AI pornographic images and videos, some reportedly uploaded to public websites; three have filed a police report and the victims' lawyer says hundreds were affected and asks for a swift process so they can focus on their studies. Attribution to the reported suspects rests on the lawyer's account of their admissions and on police examination of a phone; police have not announced charges.

Exploitation or AbusePsychological DistressReputational Harm

Outcome

Ongoing

Police report filed 19 May 2026 (Uzone/Pojok Bogor); Polres Bogor women-and-children unit investigating under the ITE Law; two reported suspects identified by initials in the press, no arrest or charge reported as of 18 September 2026; police describe the case as at an early stage and are tracing the tool used and the digital trail of uploads.

People described

Pupils and recent pupils of a private school in Cileungsi, Bogor Regency, whose social-media photographs were manipulated; three complainants documented, hundreds claimed by the victims' lawyer; unnamed; some were minors at the time and some are now university students

People reported harmed in this case

At least 3 people

0 AI participants · 3 other people harmed

Additional affected people are described without a reliable count.

Police: three pupils have reported in one police report (Kumparan, 18 Sep 2026). The victims' lawyer says the victims number in the hundreds (Uzone/Pojok Bogor). Three counted people plus additional unquantified victims: partial. 'Thousands of photos and videos' is a content count, not a person count.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2026). Cileungsi, Bogor Regency, Indonesia: photographs of private-school pupils taken from social media were turned into AI pornographic images and videos, reportedly since 2025; three pupils have filed a joint police report, the victims' lawyer says hundreds were affected, and two former pupils are named as suspects. NOPE: AI and people. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-cileungsi-bogor-students-ai-deepfake-pornography

BibTeX

@misc{2026_cileungsi_bogor_students_ai_deepfake_pornography,
  title = {Cileungsi, Bogor Regency, Indonesia: photographs of private-school pupils taken from social media were turned into AI pornographic images and videos, reportedly since 2025; three pupils have filed a joint police report, the victims' lawyer says hundreds were affected, and two former pupils are named as suspects},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {NOPE: AI and people},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-cileungsi-bogor-students-ai-deepfake-pornography}
}

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