Jakarta, Jan. 18 -- Endeavors to tackle the root causes of flooding and landslides in Bogor District and Puncak resort areas, West Java, must not create social problems in society, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency's (BNPB's) official stated.

"We must seek solutions that do not trigger social problems, such as the local people losing their jobs," the agency's head, Doni Monardo, told journalists at the Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force's base in East Jakarta on Saturday.

Monardo, who had recently returned from an aerial observation of the flooding- and landslide-swamped areas in Bogor District aboard a helicopter, remarked that massive landslides had occurred.

The landslides resembled "melted ice-cream" owing to their massive spread....