Open AccessConverting Mall-Apartments and Hotels Into Covid-19 Emergency Hospitals
Author(s) -
Hanna Wijaya,
St. Laksanto Utomo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jurnal indonesia sosial sains
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2723-6692
pISSN - 2723-6595
DOI - 10.36418/jiss.v2i8.383
Subject(s) - apartment , residence , shopping mall , business , covid-19 , government (linguistics) , obligation , function (biology) , medical emergency , medicine , engineering , advertising , sociology , political science , law , civil engineering , linguistics , philosophy , demography , disease , pathology , evolutionary biology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology
The outbreak of the COVID-19 disease, which afterwards became a pandemic, impacted the world. Because the rapid spread and ongoing research, WHO and the government had created regulations that are changing constantly. President Joko Widodo has recommended the unused buildings be used as emergency hospitals in order to accelerate the handling of the Covid-19 virus in Indonesia. Lippo Group's owner wants to assist the government by converting Plaza Mampang Mall into Siloam Hospital (a Covid-19 emergency hospital), which will be housed in the same building as the Nine Residence Apartments. As a result, the inhabitants of the unit protested to the role being transferred. The author focuses on the process of transferring functions from the building owner to the Nine Residence mall-apartment, which serves as a Covid-19 emergency hospital, as well as the building owner's obligation for the function transfer. For COVID-19, not only Nine Residence mall-apartment, but also some hotels served as emergency hospitals. This study employs normative juridical research, with the law approach and the case approach as approaches. Secondary data was used as a source of information, and the research material was obtained through a library study. The findings of this study show that the building owner's procedure of transferring function to the mall-apartment must meet administrative and technical requirements in accordance with the building's purpose. Nine Residence, but if the transfer of function results in losses, the building owner is responsible to the building inhabitants.