Rain whisperer from Mandalika

One of the highlight of recent Mandalika MotoGP was a ritual performed by a female rain whisperer that was proven effective to stop (well technically what she had done was pushing the rain elsewhere)  the rain pouring on the race track area. For many foreigner such ritual was a spectacle in itself and of course the fact that it stopped raining was amazing. 

Some Indonesians thought that such ritual is against the teaching of their religion while some others argue that such ritual is an inherent part of genuine Indonesian traditions. Such ritual to modify weather in fact is pretty common across cultures. In North America, Africa and China people some kind of rain dance is common.

However this role of the rain whisperer in Mandalika is different to those people who did rain dance as the idea is to move the rain away from the designated area in comparison to summon the rain cloud to one particular area. The latter would more 'powerful' in a sense of creating something out of nothing while the former is mere relocating something that is going -presumably- to happen.

Those who thought such ritual is compromising a religion belief would be mistaken to assume that the rain whisperer is more powerful that the deity or any supernatural as the concept of his/her action is relocating the rain. Whatever the whisperer does or pray he/she mere cajoling the rain cloud to draft away to another place. 

Of course such ritual would be outside scientific endeavor. However if I were in the position of the organizing committee of the event I would adopt Pascal's wager to the situation. The fee of such rain whisperer is nothing (less than USD 350/day) in comparison of the value of the event at stake. Certainly the benefit would outweigh the cost and in case the rain whisperer failed we could say we had tried all efforts, including something that others do not have it in their culture.