Natural Science R&D
Penelitian dan Pengembangan Ilmu Alam
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The Business of Systematic Natural-Science Research
This activity code frames research and development in the natural sciences as a registered business, open nationally to foreign investment and not blocked by Bali’s moratorium.
The activity is nationally foreign-open and, in Bali, not barred by the moratorium.
What You Need
The walkthrough that follows was written against licensing rows we have since been unable to verify for this activity — which is why no risk tier or licensing route is shown above. Treat any risk level, issuing authority or processing time in these steps as provisional, and confirm the current requirements at oss.go.id or with the Bali Zero team before acting on them.
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Authority
New code in KBLI 2025 — natural science R&D was previously part of broader research categories in KBLI 2020. The 2025 classification separates natural science research (72101) from experimental research (72109) and social science research (72201), recognizing the distinct regulatory needs of each discipline.
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Regulatory Divergence
The licensing previously shown for 72101 was removed because its source could not be verified as applying to this activity. Here is what the sources actually say — with citations.
Correction note — verbatim, with source locators
KBLI 2025 code 72101 'Penelitian dan Pengembangan Ilmu Alam' (natural-science research and development) carries canonical status_mapping='MATCH_LANGSUNG', kbli_2020_source=None, pp28_sources=['72101'] (self-referencing) — asserting the code's own number is an unchanged direct 2020-vintage match. The record additionally carries a `_source_relabeled` note (dated 2026-06-27) asserting "content is OSS-RBA-2025 per _l1/_l2" — i.e. claiming the served per_skala content is independently grounded in the OSS risk-based-assessment dataset. The Lot 6 conductor gate (§3.2, following the 70100 precedent set at Lot 5 gate §3.4) ADJUDICATED this dispute by direct read of the record's own structured markers, which REFUTE that prose claim for the per_skala layer specifically: `_l2_status='no_oss_risk'` (the OSS risk-based-assessment endpoint returned nothing usable for this code) and NO `_l2_source` key at all — the opposite of what the relabel note's prose implies; `_l1_source` (OSS_RBA_2025_id_version_fff4053d) covers judul/uraian only, never per_skala. Per the TRACK-P doctrine (structured markers win over unverified prose), the `_source_relabeled` note is read as a label-only fix (PP28_2024->PP28_2025 filename correction), not independent proof of the per_skala row's grounding. This code is one of the lot's true D1-clean-vs-D5-problem seat-agreement divergences (gate §3 Adjudications item 1) — D1 accepted the canonical's relabel-note prose, D5 flagged source_absent_in_vault; the runner's preregistered divergence rule quarantines on any D1/D5 disagreement. SECOND, independent defect verified this session by direct read of the served per_skala payload: the two served rows are BYTE-IDENTICAL (json-dump comparison, this session) to the rows served by 72103 and 72105 in this same lot — a generic industrial-services obligation block ('Penyelenggaraan Bank Plasma', biannual validated-industry-data reporting under perindustrian law, Bupati/Walikota vs Gubernur authority split by industrial-location footprint) topically unconnected to natural-science R&D. Per rule #9, this cure does not inject a replacement value: status_mapping and pp28_sources are left UNCHANGED (self-referencing citation, no independently-adjudicated alternate ancestor established for this code). per_skala detached; the licensing regime for natural-science R&D is not retrievable/verifiable from the pinned sources as hunted. Lot 6 conductor gate (SIGNED, SECOND SIGNING, post adversarial pass), run wf_dfae986f-5d3, 2026-07-19.
The detached licensing rows (source unverified for this activity)2 rows
These rows were previously shown on this page and have been detached — the correction note above documents, with source locators, why their source could not be kept for the activity this page describes. They are preserved here as the audit trail of the divergence.
Sources & Verification
Each data layer below traces to a government source with its KBLI vintage — or is declared as a gap. Nothing in these layers is silently filled in.
Title and scope as defined by the KBLI-2025 classification.
locator: OSS_RBA_2025_id_version_fff4053d
The previously-served rows were removed because their source could not be verified as applying to this activity. See Regulatory Divergence above for the documented correction note.
The investment-list annexes predate KBLI 2025; the per-code crosswalk audit of this layer is in progress. The value shown is the annex text, disclosed with its vintage.
Conservative posture derived from the risk tier · confidence LOW.
Dataset last updated 2026-07-26 · KBLI 2020 and KBLI 2025 reuse code numbers for different activities — cross-vintage rows are labeled, never merged silently.
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