East Jakarta: police confirm a grade-9 student at a state junior high school edited several female schoolmates' photographs with AI into indecent images that circulated as WhatsApp stickers; a social-media post said about 200 images were sold; the student was later beaten by schoolmates angry at the images (police statements differ on whether the depicted students or their friends did so) and both matters are under police investigation (Kompas, ANTARA, detik, VIVA, Media Indonesia, 23-24 September 2026)

Kompas.com reported on 23 September 2026 that several female students at a state junior high school in East Jakarta had been harassed through the misuse of photographs edited with artificial intelligence, after a Threads post said a grade-9 student had edited his female schoolmates' photographs with AI so that they resembled adult content and that the images had been sold, about 200 of them. The East Jakarta police spokesperson, AKP I Made Budi, confirmed to reporters at the Pulogadung police station that the editing had happened and that the women-and-children protection unit of the East Jakarta police was investigating; he said the photographs had been turned into WhatsApp stickers with the depicted students' bodies edited. He added that police had also received one report from the student accused of the editing, who said he had been mistreated or assaulted by the other side, and that the parties would be brought together in mediation while the main case was examined. ANTARA (23 September) carried the same confirmation and said police had not disclosed the identity of the student or the depicted students and were still establishing the chronology, the editing method, who received or distributed the images and the number of depicted students. detik.com and VIVA (24 September) quoted the spokesperson that the information was correct but that no report had yet been received from the depicted students, and appealed to them to report; VIVA said the number was described as hundreds of photographs and that the images had circulated as stickers. Kompas.com (24 September) noted that the sale allegation still rested only on the social-media post. ANTARA (24 September) reported the assault complaint in detail: according to the parents, on Tuesday 15 September after school the student was told to come to a stall beside a primary school in Kayu Putih, taken by motorcycle to an empty house on Jalan Tiner, punched on the nose, ears and head and kicked in the chest by several people, one of whom threatened him with a bladed weapon; on 16 September he was again taken from the stall to the Ria Rio reservoir, hit on the head, slapped on both ears and kicked in the stomach several times. Police said the assault was carried out by friends of the depicted students who were angry about the edited photographs, that they were still identifying the alleged assailants and checking whether the depicted students had filed a report. Kompas.com quoted the head of the East Jakarta education office (Wilayah I), M. Fahmi, that the school had held mediation with the students' parents.

Several female junior-high students had their photographs edited with AI into indecent images that were made into WhatsApp stickers and, according to a social-media post relayed by the outlets, sold; police confirm the editing and the stickers and are investigating it as alleged sexual harassment ('dugaan pelecehan seksual') through the women-and-children protection unit. The student who made the images was, according to his parents' report relayed by police, beaten on two days by schoolmates angry at the images (the depicted students per Kompas.com, their friends per ANTARA, detik and VIVA) (punched and kicked on the head, chest and stomach and threatened with a bladed weapon); the injuries are not described. Both harms are reported through the police spokesperson.

Investigation by the women-and-children protection unit (Unit PPA) of the East Jakarta police criminal investigation division into the image editing and distribution, and a separate assault report filed by the student who made the images; police said they would process both matters and bring the parties together in mediation once the main case is examined; the East Jakarta education office (Suku Dinas Pendidikan Wilayah I) said the school had mediated with the parents. No arrest, charge or identification of recipients is reported in the inspected bodies.