Fifteen people have been arrested in Indonesia for their alleged involvement in a criminal syndicate that has been distributing fake vaccines to hospitals across the country for more than a decade.
Rita Agustina and her husband Hidayat Taufiqurahman once posted happy photographs of themselves, posing with new cars and showcasing their three-storey mansion in Bekasi, in the outskirts of Jakarta.
But now these same images are being lambasted by social media, with people describing them as "demons" and 'devils acting like angels'.
Medical consultant Wimpie Pangkahila wrote: "Punish them heavily. Just like terrorists".
The pair were arrested on Thursday, accused of being the masterminds behind a syndicate that has allegedly been inserting fake vaccines into old vials collected from hospitals.
The vaccines, which included immunisations for Hepatitis C, Hepatitis A, measles and tetanus, were then sold to private hospitals and medical practices in several provinces, including Central Java, Yogyakarta and North Sumatra.
At this stage public hospitals do not appear to have been affected.
Authorities cannot say how many children have been injected with fake vaccines but it is believed the syndicate has been operating for 13 years.
So far 15 people have been arrested.
"We're focusing on distribution because by knowing the distribution, we can see how big this problem is," National Police economy and special crime director Agung Setya said on Monday.
He said they were also looking at charging people with money laundering.
"We would apply that to all perpetrators especially the makers because we know, they obtain their wealth from a huge crime and we will chase their assets."
After more than a decade of operating under the radar, the syndicate came to the attention of authorities earlier this month when a hospital in Bogor, south of Jakarta, reported an anomaly in one of their vaccines.
Health Minister Nila F. Moeloek said it appeared the vaccines were IV solutions and therefore shouldn't have an "extraordinary affect" on any children that had them. However they were useless and those children affected will need to be properly vaccinated.
Parents like Lany are concerned.
She took her six-month-old daughter to a private hospital in Bekasi earlier this month and used a private vaccine for tetanus after she was told they had run out of the government-supplied medicine.
She spent 1 million rupiah ($A100) and her baby had a fever after the vaccine.
She doesn't know if it was a fake.
Executive director of Indonesia Aids Coalition (IAC) and long-time campaigner for access to medicines in Indonesia, Aditya Wardhana said the case reflects the government's need to review its policy in relation to vaccines.
"If these products were affordable (and accessible) then this would close the opportunity for syndicates to produce a fake one," he told AAP.
