Guarantee Benefit for Creditor and Credit Reconstruction Effort during COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Guarantee begins with the debtor credit agreement that followed with the handover of the object guarantee by debtor to creditor, where the creditors are banks. If referred in the regulation article 1 point 2 of Constitution No. 10/1998 concerning on banking stated that bank is a business entity that raised fund from citizen in the form of deposits and channeling them to the public in the form of credit and/or in other forms in order to improve the lives of many people. Bank has the important role in economic, because one of its function is giving the credit to citizen and helping the micro, small and medium enterprises. This given credit must be accompanied by collateral or collateral provisions from the debtor because it was one of the precautionary principal from Bank, and also with the efforts to protect the creditor at any time the debtor defaults. The covid-19 pandemic outbreak that had a profound impact on the entire life of society was also influenced the problem of credit and guarantee. The collateral agreement which is an accessoire agreement (follow-up or accompanying) follows the main or principal agreement, that is preceded by a credit agreement (debt agreement), including on what if there is bad credit and what efforts should be done by the Bank so that it does not experience even greater losses. For this reason, the writer is very interested, to find out the extent of the benefits of the collateral object for creditors as well as credit restructuring efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic.