Raja Bomoh, aka Ibrahim Mat Zin, has filed a police report denying that the ritual he performed on the banks of Sungai Perak to hold back floodwaters goes against Islam.

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

A woman called...