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NOC Indonesian Olympic Committee Website www.nocindonesia.or.id (Indonesian) Flag bearer Maria Natalia Londa (opening)
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Indonesia competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's fifteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics.
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The National Sports Committee of Indonesia (Indonesian: Komite Olahraga Nasional Indonesia, KONI) confirmed a team of 28 athletes, 16 men and 12 women, to compete across seven sports at the Games. Three of them accepted their spots to compete in athletics and swimming through wild card entries, with the rest of the field directly qualifying for the Games on merit. Among the sporting events represented by the nation's competitors, Indonesia marked its Olympic debut in men's team archery and BMX cycling, as well as its return to rowing after 12 years.
The Indonesian roster featured ten returning Olympians, with only three of them headed to their third straight Games: badminton shuttler Lilyana Natsir, along with her partner Tontowi Ahmad, in the mixed doubles, and two-time bronze medalists Eko Yuli Irawan and Triyatno in weightlifting. Other notable Indonesian athletes also included Beijing 2008 champion Hendra Setiawan in the men's badminton doubles and long jumper and reigning Asian Games champion Maria Natalia Londa, who was appointed as the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.
Indonesia left Rio de Janeiro with three Olympic medals (one gold and two silvers), improving its stark medal tally from London four years earlier. Among the nation's medalists were badminton players Ahmad and Natsir, who both bounced back from their fourth-place finish in London to secure the mixed doubles gold, and weightlifting rookie Sri Wahyuni Agustiani, who handed Indonesia its first medal of the Games with a silver in the women's 48 kg. Meanwhile, Irawan set a historic milestone as the first Indonesian weightlifter to medal across three Olympic Games, upgrading his two bronzes to a silver in the men's 62 kg.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:
Archery
One Indonesian archer qualified for the women's individual recurve by obtaining one of the eight Olympic places available from the 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark. Three Indonesian archers qualified for the men's events by virtue of the nation's podium finish in the team recurve competition at the 2016 Archery World Cup meet in Antalya, Turkey.
Athletics
Indonesian athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):
Badminton
Indonesia has qualified a total of ten badminton players for each of the following events into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF World Rankings as of 5 May 2016: two pairs in the mixed doubles, a pair each in the men's and women's doubles, and one entry each in the men's and women's singles.
BMX
Indonesia has receive an invitation from the UCI to send a men's BMX rider to the Olympics, as the next highest-ranked eligible nation, not yet qualified, in the UCI Olympic Ranking List of May 31, 2016, signifying the nation's Olympic return to the sport for the first time since 2004. Indonesia's top-ranked BMX rider and 2014 Asian Games fourth-place finalist Toni Syarifudin was named to the Olympic roster on June 8, 2016.
Rowing
Indonesia has qualified one boat each in the men's and women's single sculls for the Olympics at the 2016 Asia & Oceania Continental Qualification Regatta in Chungju, South Korea, signifying the nation's Olympic return to the sport for the first time since 2004.
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage
Swimming
Indonesia has received a Universality invitation from FINA to send two swimmers (one male and one female) to the Olympics.
Weightlifting
Indonesian weightlifters have qualified five men's and two women's quota places for the Rio Olympics based on their combined team standing by points at the 2014 and 2015 IWF World Championships. The team must allocate these places to individual athletes by June 20, 2016.
The weightlifting team, headlined by London 2012 medalists Eko Yuli Irawan and Triyatno, was named to the Olympic roster on June 21, 2016.