students sit in a single exam which is held simultaneously across the country.Individual schools are limited to sending 3 students to this exam. National stageA minimum of 1 student per province and generally less than 100 students nationally per subject come together and sit exams, generally one theoretical and one experimental, and winners are selected.Individual awards include Absolute Winner (First place), Best Theory and Best Experiment (highest scores in theoretical and experimental exams respectively), along with gold (ranks 1–5), silver (ranks 6-15), and bronze (ranks 16–30) medals. In 2016, over 320,000 students participated in the Olimpiade Sains Kabupaten across Indonesia, with 1,579 eventually making it into the national phase. In comparison, 420 medals were given out in 2017. Events As of 2018, only two provinces have ever won the competition: DKI Jakarta and Central Java. Both provinces are commonly seen in the competition as dominant participants, oftentimes sending the largest delegations of students. In 2020, during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, the National Achievement Center (Pusat Prestasi Nasional) instructs that the 2020 edition of this competition is going to be held online. See also Indonesian Medical Olympiad Education in Indonesia References Education in Indonesia Science competitions