Post-polls treatment: Yayat being doused with water infused with flowers as part of a traditional cleansing ritual at an Islamic healing centre in Cirebon city. — AFP
Cirebon: Political hopeful Yayat Abdurahman bet that he would be a winner among some 245,000 candidates in Indonesia’s huge election last week, but his dreams of public office are fading fast as the votes get tallied.
So the stressed-out candidate checked into an Islamic healing centre where a cleric prayed for his future and doused him in flower-infused water as part of a traditional cleansing ritual.
