Have you had your intimate images shared online without your consent?
You're not alone, we are here to help
Intimate image abuse can also be referred to as ‘revenge porn’, non-consensual pornography or image-based sexual abuse.
It is the act of sharing intimate images or videos of someone, either on or offline, without their consent with the intention of causing distress.
Based on Indonesia’s Laws:
Article 4 paragraph (1) of the Pornography Law
Everyone is prohibited from producing, creating, reproducing, duplicating, distributing, broadcasting, importing, exporting, offering, trading, renting, or providing pornography that explicitly contains:
- intercourse, including deviant intercourse;
- sexual violence;
- masturbating or masturbating;
- nudity or an impressive display of nudity;
- genitals; or
- child pornography.
Consent is a very vital part in determining whether or not there is a violation of Article 4 paragraph (1) of the Pornography Law which prohibits the production and manufacture of pornography which explicitly includes, among other things, sexual intercourse and nudity.
Thus, against perpetrator who videotaped your sexual relationship without your knowledge and consent, perpetrator can be charged with Article 4 paragraph (1) jo. Article 29 of the Pornography Law for making pornography, and is threatened with imprisonment for a minimum of 6 months and a maximum of 12 years and/or a minimum fine of Rp. 250 million and a maximum of Rp. 6 billion.
Cyber-threat 🚫
If you’re threaten via chat, perpetrator can be charged with:
Article 29 of the ITE Law jo. Article 45B of Law 19/2016
Any person who intentionally and without rights sends Electronic Information and/or Electronic Documents containing threats of violence or intimidation aimed at personally as referred to in Article 29 shall be punished with imprisonment for a maximum of 4 years and/or a fine of a maximum of Rp.750 million.
If someone recorded/captured your image/video without your knowledge, and shared them online without your consent🚩
- Non-judgemental and confidential advice: You will receive advice and support on a 1-1 basis from one of our help centre practitioners via live chat.
- Reporting and removal of content: We can help with reporting and removing content online. Whilst we cannot guarantee removal of all images or videos, we have exceptional link to few social media platforms and National Cybercrime Agency which holds an excellent takedown record.
- Social media advice: Advice on the social media platform’s community guidelines and policies and how to report and remove content to which they should respond promptly. If not, we can help!
- Legal knowledge and on how to reporting to the police: Advice on how and what evidence you need to gather and when you should approach the authorities, as well as policies & laws information.
- We cannot help anyone under the age of 18. The Indonesia’s law states it is illegal to take, distribute, or download explicit content of individuals under the age of 18. You can report what has happened to free hotline for victims of violence against women and children (KEMENPPPA) Whatsapp: +628111-129-129
- We cannot provide Legal support to people who are not Indonesian nationals. Regrettably, legal assistance is limited to Indonesian nationals due to existing legal jurisdictions. However, we are able to offer psychological support to non-Indonesians and signpost them to the relevant resources, helplines, or authorities they may require.
- We cannot undertake criminal investigations or report to the police on the victim’s behalf. You may contact free hotline for victims of violence against women and children (KEMENPPPA) Whatsapp: +628111-129-129 or connect with our lawyers/law firm partners, in here.
What issues can we help with?
Intimate images/videos shared without consent
Threats to share intimate images/videos
Webcam blackmailing (Sextortion)
How do we help removing the content?
Fill up the Revenge Porn Help Centre online form
Upload proof of evidence, links, screenshots of images/videos
We will immediately forward your report to the social media platform
We will email you once we hear from the Platform. In the mean time, we always here to provide emotional and legal supports
About Intimate Image Abuse
Intimate image abuse is the act of sharing intimate images or videos of someone, either on or offline, without their consent.
In Indonesia, it is an offence for a person to disclose a private sexual photograph or film without the consent of an individual who appears in the photograph or film, with the intention of causing them distress.
This crime can be committed by anyone, it’s sometimes an aggrieved former partner, but NOT always. You do not have to be in a relationship with the perpetrator for it to be considered intimate image abuse.
Anyone can be a victim of intimate image abuse, regardless of your gender, sexuality and whether you are 18 or 80+.
The intention is to cause significant embarrassment, harassment and shame and the effects can be devastating for victims, especially on their mental health and wellbeing. To have explicit images that are deeply personal in the public domain is an emotionally traumatic and violating experience. The effect on victims is often pervasive and long-lasting. While they have been the victim of a crime, those affected often internalise feelings of guilt and shame. Depression and anxiety are sadly commonplace. There can be reputational and financial harm from employment loss. Some feel so isolated and overwhelmed that they consider suicide. If you are feeling like this, you are not alone, please seek help. People are waiting to listen.
In some cases, the content is shared in an act of revenge to embarrass, humiliate or cause distress to a person after the breakdown of a relationship, but it’s not always about revenge. content can be shared as a way of financial extortion, or blackmail, sometimes known as ‘sextortion’, to expose someone who has a high profile status or to ‘out’ someone. We often see it as an element in wider cases of stalking, harassment or domestic abuse.
As we know, the internet is a massive space for platforms to share content. We see most content shared on social media platforms or general porn websites. In some cases, links to the content are emailed or sent to family, friends or employers. Some cases have stemmed from hacked devices or cloud storage (for example the high profile iCloud hack where hundreds of images were accessed, including those of celebrities).
Reporting to Social Media
Step by Step Guides
The internet is a massive place. We all understand this. Equally, we understand that when anxiety and worry take over, we panic about where our intimate images may have been shared without our consent.
Setting up a Google Alert is not a perfect science but can definitely provide some reassurance and peace of mind. It works by flagging Google search results to you via email when a specific name or phrase is found.
- You’ll first need a Google Mail (Gmail) account. If you don’t have one, create one here.
- Go to ‘Google Alerts’.
- Create your alerts.
You can enter as many alerts as you like. This could include names, nicknames, and phrases, basically anything you think could be attached or associated with your content if your images or videos were posted. If you have a common name, you might need to add some detail, such as your home town, so you don’t receive 100+ results a day for someone else.
Examples:
Tina Nina
Tina Nina, Cimanggis
Tina Nina, Cimanggis, 31
Tina Nina, Leaked nudes
4. Change the options of what you see and when you’re alerted.
Seeing daily alerts might cause you to feel more stressed by the situation. Click on the settings cog icon (found by the right of ‘My Alerts’. You can then decide how often you can receive notifications for search results. By selecting the ‘Digest’ option, any search results will be combined into one email which you can receive daily or weekly.
5. If you do find a result, and there is an intimate image or video shared without your consent, we’re here to help you.
Firstly, don’t panic. Easier said than done, but we can help and you’re not alone with dealing with this. Here’s what to do:
- Screenshot the page where it has been posted and save it: this is evidence and can be used if you decide to report this to the police.
- You can do this by calling the non-emergency number 110; you’ll need to give brief details to a call handler and an appropriate officer should return your call.
- Contact our Legal Support Unit for further advice and support.
We are able to help you to report and remove the content. Whilst we cannot guarantee it will be removed, we do hold a very good takedown success rate and we are very persistent and determined.
We will ask you to copy and paste the URL and send us the links to the content: if there are other images or videos on the page, we may have to ask you to confirm which images are of you.
Privacy. A term that’s been thrown around and become a bit of a media buzzword; the meaning has been altered and potentially even lost. You can make your own decisions over many privacy options: who can see what you’re doing, who you’re with and even where you are. The intention here is not to scare but to emphasise the importance of what you can do to manage your privacy online. Keeping your private stuff private is vital and it’s often common advice in a situation where your privacy has been or might be, compromised.
Why might you want to update your privacy settings?
- If someone is threatening to share your intimate images online.
- If you have been victim to ‘Sextortion’ or blackmail.
- If you have had your personal accounts hacked or security compromised.
- If someone is harassing you online and you want to limit their view of your profile or ability to contact you.
- If, due to your profession or other reason, you want to be more private online.
- If you haven’t ever really thought about it or something you’ve just neglected to do.
What type of things should I be doing to update my privacy settings?
- Restrict what’s accessible to by the public – e.g. make your accounts private to limit content only to be seen by your friends or those who follow you.
- Restrict the view of your friend list to ‘only me’ or ‘friends only’.
- Make your account as secure as possible – this would mean updating passwords to make them strong and secure and enable two-factor authentication (where available).
- Antivirus – be mindful of your computer health, it’s advised to run regular checks for any suspicious malware on your computer.
For most of the changes to privacy settings you’ll need to do this on the app or platform itself, but for ease and clarity here are all the links to where you can do this as quickly as possible.
Google offers multiple options for changing your privacy settings and have a privacy check-up option to make sure it’s all up to date and secure.
YouTube
To change your privacy setting on YouTube, click here. You’re able to change the visibility of your videos so you can decide who can view, share and much more.
On the Facebook ‘Basic Privacy Settings & Tools’ page, you are able to review your privacy settings for sharing, connecting and tagging on Facebook.
Instagram’s Help Centre allows you to adjust your privacy settings, let you know how you can make your profile private and lots more features to improve your privacy.
Click here to find out how you can manage your privacy settings on Twitter, report abuse and access help for hacked or compromised accounts.
Snapchat
Snapchat Support allows you to review all your privacy settings and also inform you on how to report abuse, block and learn how the app works with privacy in mind.
To review, edit and update your privacy settings and account information on LinkedIn.
Skype
We see numerous cases of sextortion crimes happening over Skype and other video chat platforms, through Skype you can manage your privacy settings here.
Any WhatsApp user to see your read receipts, last seen, about and profile photo. Find out more here.
TikTok
Visit your Privacy and Safety settings to update your privacy controls for your comments, direct messages, and Duets.
You are able to find out how to protect your account, see recent logins, enable two-factor authentication and update your search privacy
Reverse image searching allows you to find other websites that contain the image you’re looking for. If someone has shared or threatened to share, your intimate images without consent and you want to find where, or if, it has been posted, this could be a useful tool.
** Proceed with caution **
Searching for your content online can be very distressing so proceed with caution if you choose to do this and maybe limit the time you spend searching. Alternatively, ask a trusted friend to do this for you.
So, what’s the process?
- You will need the original copies of the images
- Open a search engine with reverse image search tool (see below)
- Drag and drop the image into the search bar.
- If there are no images found, the top result will be ‘No other sizes of this image found’.
- If there are images found, the top result will be ‘find other sizes of this image’. By clicking ‘all sizes’, this will take you to a page with search results
Image reverse search engines
Most search engines have a reverse image search function, it’s usually found as an image icon alongside the image search bar. If you are wanting to perform a tougher search, it’s best to use more than one engine to double-check as sometimes the images cannot be found on one engine but can be on another.
You can find links below to some of the most popular search engines and their reverse image tool.
Please note: we do not endorse or recommend the following platforms, we are simply providing available tools for public use.
Google Images
Select the camera icon to search by image. Here you can upload the image file or paste in the image address URL.
Google Lens
Available on Google Play and the Apple App Store, useful if you are using your mobile device for image searching.
Bing
Search for similar images by uploading an image file or the image address.
Yandex
Select the camera and magnifier glass icon, upload the image file or image address.
TinEye
Upload the image file or image address into the search bar.
What happens if I find a result?
If you do find a result and there is an intimate image or video shared without your consent, we’re here to help you.
- Firstly, don’t panic. That’s easier said than done, but we can help. You’re not alone in dealing with this.
- Screenshot the page where it has been posted and save it. This is evidence if you decide to report to the police. You can do this by calling the police non-emergency number 101; you’ll need to give brief details to a call handler and an appropriate officer should return your call.
- Contact our Legal Support Unit. We are able to help you to report and remove the content. Whilst we cannot guarantee it will be removed, we do hold a very good takedown success rate and we are very persistent and determined.
- Provide us with links. We will ask you to copy and paste the URL and send us the links to the content; if there are other images or videos on the page, we may have to ask you to confirm which images are of you.