Raja Bomoh says he's been protecting Malaysia for 70 years

Self-styled Raja Bomoh Ibrahim Mat Zin shows how he prays for Malaysia's protection against North Korea, holding up two fingers to bless both nations.ST PHOTO: SHANNON TEOH.

SINGAPORE: The efforts by a self-styled Bomoh King of the World to find the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 plane and to save Malaysia from a North Korean invasion with coconuts and bamboo cannons have catapulted him into the limelight and raised mocking laughter.

But Ibrahim Mat Zin, in all seriousness, claims that he has in fact been protecting Malaysia from harm for seven decades - from even before the country's independence.