Renegosiasi Kontrak Sebagai Upaya Penyelesaian Pelaksanaan Kontrak Saat Pandemi Covid-19

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic proves the difficulties for business actors to operate their businesses, hence many of them face constraints in fulfilling their obligation to the creditors, which subsequently causes these debtors to be declared in default. Creditors as parties entitled to the fulfillment of the obligation are expected to understand the difficulties faced by debtors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The problems raised in this study are: first, is the covid-19 pandemic may constitute ground for default by the debtor in fulfilling his contractual obligations, second, how are the efforts to resolve the obstacles in fulfillment of obligation in the covid-19 pandemic. This research was conducted using normative juridical methods and analyzed qualitatively. This study concludes that first, the covid-19 pandemic includes force majeure which resulted in the debtor experiencing economic difficulties to fulfill their obligation, leading to the debtor’s default which consequently resulted in the debtor losing his business and property which was used as collateral for debt repayment; second, if the debtor has difficulty in fulfilling their obligations, the debtor can ask the creditor to carry out renegotiation of the ongoing agreement based on the principle of kinship as mandated by Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution.