Tri Hita Karana mapping is Bali co-design only; publication conditional on customary-authority sign-off
Attribution
Prior state
The Tri Hita Karana ↔ four-pillar mapping had been read in places
as a "methodological export" — a network-level contribution
PLANETAI would publish across all pilots.
Change
Path B framing locked across all PLANETAI surfaces:
- Bali pilot only
- Co-design experiment
- Publication conditional on customary-authority sign-off as a
binding precondition
The phrase "methodological export" is retired in any
PLANETAI-network-facing text.
Path B operational sequence:
- v1 drafted with CAST + MDG / Fab Lab Bali + IT Del
- Customary-authority review scheduled for v2 (banjar adat,
desa adat, or PHDI scholar — to be named in v2)
- Methodology paper submitted only after sign-off obtained.
Reasoning
Cosmological taxonomies are not methodological commodities. A
Western-led research program framing Tri Hita Karana as something
to "export" across pilots — without binding customary-authority
sign-off — would be both ethically wrong and strategically
fragile (PHDI / banjar adat / desa adat objection at any point in
publication would force retraction).
Path B makes customary-authority sign-off a precondition rather
than a courtesy, and makes the contribution Bali-scoped — which
is also where the cosmology actually applies.
Artifacts changed
- planetai_publish/core-ideas-paper.md (Open questions, Bali pilot)
- PLANETAI_Observatory_v0/docs/methodology_tri_hita_karana_v0.md
Gating questions
- Customary authority for Tri Hita Karana sign-off — banjar adat, desa adat, or PHDI scholar — not yet named (deferred to v2)
Review
Required acks (0/3 acks): cast.foundation, mdg.fab-lab-bali, it-del.ben-koo
Window closes: 2026-06-30
customary-authority naming gates Path B itself
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