'Raja Bomoh' denies ritual to hold back floodwaters heretical

A file picture of Ibrahim Mat Zin, also known as 'Raja Bomoh'.

IPOH: Ibrahim Mat Zin, better know as "Raja Bomoh" has filed a police report to deny that that the ritual he performed to hold back floodwaters on the banks of Sungai Perak goes against Islam.

A 25-minute video of the "tepung tawar" ceremony at Dataran JPS Teluk Intan, which involved releasing flowers and leaves, among other things, into the river to be carried by the current to the sea, had gone viral.