Kompetisi Sains Nasional Medalists (2008-2021)

Kompetisi Sains Nasional (KSN) is Indonesia's annual national science Olympiad with preliminary round spanning across each regional level. The main aim of KSN is to maximize students potential in academic and lessen the gap between provinces as students represent their provinces in the final round. The top medalist from each subjects will later compete after series of training camp for the rights to represent Indonesia in International Level.

The first KSN is held in 2002 after Indonesia successfully hosting International Physics Olympiad and the call to hold similar competition but in national level become apparent after seeing the potential of Indonesian students to compete in International Level. There are only 7 subjects to choose in the early years of KSN which are: Mathematics, Physics, Informatics, Biology, Chemistry, Astronomy and Economy. Geology and Geography is added to the list starting from 2008 and 2013 respectively.

Being in the KSN preparation team of my high school, there's always the talk about certain schools that constantly produce medal-winning students and stay as the powerhouse in the competition. There's also the fact that only 3 provinces have held the overall winner in all KSN series. Through this project I wanted to show the distribution of KSN medalist based on several categories from every series. Unfortunately, due to the lack of official documentation available in public I need to build my own dataset from various source with various format. Even worse is there's no official record about the first 5 years of KSN and many missing medalist info for 2006 and 2007 series. Therefore, only series between 2008 and 2021 are processed and analyzed in this project.

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