“We will give the prosecutors two days … tomorrow and Wednesday.

“If no charges are made against this person by Thursday, I will go and give a class to teach this ‘ah pek’ how to correctly put up a flag,” he said in a video on Facebook.

“If this is hushed up … no matter, we will wait for the prosecutors to decide whether to charge or not.

“We ask for this person to be charged under a section (of the law) that provides for a stiffer sentence,” he said.

Yesterday, police arrested the 59-year-old hardware store owner for hoisting the Jalur Gemilang upside down the day before.

Acting Penang police chief Alwi Zainal Abidin said the investigation paper will be referred to the deputy public prosecutor’s office today for further action.

He said 16 reports had been received nationwide over the incident, including 12 from within Penang.

The video of the incident showed a man hoisting the flag while another recorded it.

Malaysiakini reported that the hardware shop owner said he was measuring the length of an iron pole while hanging the flag and did not notice that it was upside down.

The owner said he rectified the mistake immediately after realising it.

He apologised for the blunder and lodged a report at the Kepala Batas police station to provide an explanation.