Jakarta, Feb. 3 -- Minister of Environment Hanif Faisol Nurofiq on Tuesday warned the business sector to place environmental protection as a fundamental foundation, warning that disasters linked to human activity carry enormous economic and social costs.

Nurofiq made the remarks while referring to recent flooding in Sumatra and a landslide in Cisarua, which he said were partly driven by human activities that failed to take the climate crisis into account, increasing the likelihood of natural phenomena, including more extreme weather events.

"We need collaboration to raise awareness that whatever economic activities we undertake, if we fail to put the environment as the main foundation, the cost of recovery and the cost of damage will be...