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M, who was detained on Monday for allegedly running three pornographic websites, distributed at least 100 pornographic videos involving minors, the police say.

The National Police'€™s cyber crime sub-division head, Sr. Comr. Rahmad Wibowo, said on Tuesday that of the 120,000 items on DM'€™s websites, at least 100 featured child-pornography.

'€œWe have not seen all the videos, but so far, based on our observation on the location, language, faces and clothes, we have found more than 100 videos involving children, with half of them recorded in the country,'€ he said at the National Police headquarters in South Jakarta.

Some of the individuals in the videos wore junior and senior high school uniforms.

'€œWe reckon that the youngest [individuals] in the videos are between 11 and 12 years old,'€ he said.

Most of the videos were voluntarily made by the students using their camera phones, the police found.

Rahmad said that the police would pay close attention to one video in which a child was forced to have sex. It appears that the victim was unconscious,'€ he said.

DM is accused of distributing pornography to website subscribers, who paid between Rp 30,000 (US$2.57) to Rp 800,000 depending on the packages.

The majority of his subscribers are in Indonesia.

'€œIn 2013, around Rp 100 million passed through one of his three bank accounts. We are still investigating his income from this business,'€ Rahmad said, adding that DM first started in 2012.

The police'€™s special economics crime director, Brig. Gen. Arief Sulistyanto, said that DM claimed he had sourced the videos from other websites. '€œWe should not believe him. I have instructed the team to find out who made the videos. We will involve the National Commission for Child Protection [Komnas PA] and the police'€™s forensic team,'€ Arief said.

During the interrogation, DM, who has bachelor'€™s degree in economics, claimed to have turned to pornography to make ends meet. DM'€™s pregnant wife was aware of his pornography business.

DM will be charged under multiple articles of the 2008 Pornography Law and the 2008 Information and Electronic Transactions Law, which carry a maximum 12 years imprisonment and a Rp 6 billion fine. The maximum penalty will be increased by one-third because of the involvement of minors in the crime.

'€œConsidering the financial transactions, we are mulling charging him with the 2010 Money Laundering Law,'€ Arief said.

There has been a number of pornography cases involving students. Last October, parents were shocked by a circulating porn video made by students of a junior high school in Sawah Besar, Central Jakarta.

Head of Komnas PA supervisory board, Seto Mulyadi, said the trend was due to a lack of sexual education.

'€œDo not judge these children. They are the victims of their parents who have not instilled them with moral values ['€¦] or the victims of their teachers who overstate academic achievement,'€ Seto said.