In February 2017, for a second month in 2017, Metro City experienced inflation. Group expenditure to trigger the occurrence of inflation dominated by housing, water, electricity, gas and fuel to the inflationary contribution of 0.2046 percent, followed by food, beverages, cigarettes and tobacco with inflation donations 0.1205 percent and was followed by the group transport, communications and financial services with 0.0787 percent contribution to inflation. While groups of expenditure curb inflation in Metro City in February 2017 the share of foodstuffs with deflation of 0.1082 percent, followed by clothing with a share deflation of 0.0108 percent. Followed by education, recreation and sport deflation with a share of 0.0036 percent and health groups deflation with a share of 0.0025 percent. Index changes in all seven such spending causes inflation in Metro City by 0.28 percent
Commodities that contributed high inflation during the month of February 2017 include electricity tariffs, onion, motorbikes, cigarette filters, chicken, sugar, soup, garlic, cooking oil, and cayenne pepper. Based on the calculation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in February 2017, inflation Metro City caused by the increase in the index in the group housing, water, electricity, gas and fuel inflation at 0.94 percent; food, beverages, cigarettes and tobacco by 0.68 percent inflation; transportation and communications and financial services with inflation of 0.67 percent. Meanwhile, a group that curb inflation is foodstuffs deflation of 0.37 percent; clothing with deflation of 0.17 percent and a group of health and education, recreation and sport each with deflation of 0.04 percent.
In February 2017, based on the calculation of the inflation of the 82 cities observed price changes, there are 62 cities that experienced inflation and 20 cities experienced deflation. The highest inflation was in Manado by 1.16 percent, while the lowest inflation was in Ternate with inflation of 0.03 percent. Meanwhile, the highest deflation occurred in Jambi amounted to 1.40 percent, while the lowest was in Bungo deflation with the deflation of 0.02 percent. Metro City with inflation of 0.28 percent ranks 43 nationally. Of the 23 cities on the island of Sumatra, the highest inflation occurred in Dumai at 1.12 percent and the lowest occurred in Batam by 0.09 percent. Meanwhile, the highest deflation occurred in Jambi deflation while the lowest was in Bungo. Metro City with inflation of 0.28 per cent was ranked sixth on the island of Sumatra.
