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Kemayoran Athletes Village ( Indonesian: ''Wisma Atlet Kemayoran'') is a building complex located in
Kemayoran Kemayoran is a district of Central Jakarta, Jakarta in Indonesia. It was best known for the former Kemayoran Airport. It has been transforming as a new Central business district. As of 2022, it consists of numerous four and five star hotels, resta ...
District, Jakarta,
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. The site was developed as the athlete's village for the
2018 Asian Games The 2018 Asian Games ( id, Pesta Olahraga Asia 2018 or ''Asian Games 2018''), officially known as the 18th Asian Games and also known as Jakarta-Palembang 2018 or Indonesia 2018, was a continental multi-sport event that was held from 18 Augus ...
and 2018 Asian Para Games 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
field hospital A field hospital is a temporary hospital or mobile medical unit that takes care of casualties on-site before they can be safely transported to more permanent facilities. This term was initially used in military medicine (such as the Mobile A ...
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
COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identi ...
field hospitals in the world, being 3 times bigger than Huoshenshan Hospital or 2 times bigger than
Leishenshan Hospital Leishenshan Hospital () was an emergency specialty field hospital built in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The facility is located at No.3 Parking Lot of the Athletes Village in Jiangxia District, Wuhan, Hubei. Stage one of construction was ...
, both in
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. With the 30 December 2022 government announcement on revocation of the Community Activities Restrictions Enforcement, 3 towers of the emergency hospital were decommissioned, leaving only one tower active.


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