Dian Yuliastuti, Jakarta – Head of Internet Rental Centers in Indonesia (Awari), Irwin Day, has that the money in circulation being spent on pornography has reached US$3.075 million per second.

"Based on statistical data in 2006, more than 28,258 users per second look at pornographic sites," said Irwin at a press conference about Safe Internet for Children at the Department of Communication and Informatics, on Friday (25/7) last week.

Irwin also mentioned that revenues from pornography throughout the world in 2006 reached US$97.06 billion, with 28 percent coming from China and 27 percent from South Korea.

He explained that 25 percent of all search engines looked for pornography every day and that 12 percent of total sites, or 4.2 million sites, are included as pornographic sites. "There are 420 million pornographic pages," said Irwin.

He went on to say that some children have already started checking out pornographic sites when they are as young as 11 years old.

The largest amount of consumers, however, is still adults aged between 39-49 years.

Irwin went on saying that in Indonesia, seven out of 100 top sites are pornographic sites.

In terms of looking for the word 'sex' at search engines, Indonesia is ranked number seven in Asia, while the largest amount of searchers for this word come from Pakistan.

Cahyana Ahmadjayadi, Director General of Telematic Applications at the Communication and Informatics Department, stated his concern for this situation. "The government will work together with Internet Rental Centers in Indonesia to block porn sites," he said.

The association of internet rental centers is offering free software to block porn sites.