Kemayoran Athletes Village (

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: ''Wisma Atlet Kemayoran'') is a building complex located in

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District,

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. The site was developed as the athlete's village for the

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and

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which was held in Jakarta, built on an area of 10 hectares land, which had 7,424 apartments in 10 towers. Total accommodation capacity of 22,272 at the village exceeded

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standards, which require Olympics hosts to provide rooms for at least 14,000 athletes. __TOC__

Use as COVID-19 hospital

During the

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, 4 towers were converted to emergency

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s. On 18 March 2020, the Ministry of Finance announced Kemayoran Athletes Village will be converted to house COVID-19 patients who show only mild symptoms after consultation from doctors. The conversion was officially completed on 23 March. With a capacity of 3,000 beds, it is one of the biggest

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field hospitals in the world, being 3 times bigger than

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or 2 times bigger than

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, both in

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. With the 30 December 2022 government announcement on revocation of the

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, 3 towers of the emergency hospital were decommissioned, leaving only one tower active.

References

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