[Nulgath]

BATAMNEWS.CO.ID, Batam - Teruntuk you who may think it will wander away leaving your home town, you should notice a few things in your destination city such as the cost of living.

Because the cost of living can be used as a benchmark to measure how much it will cost you should you spend per month if you live in the city that goal.

Well to how much the cost of living, we can use the data that can be obtained from BPS (Central Bureau of Statistics).

BPS itself is a non-ministerial government institution directly responsible to the President.

To see the amount of a cost of living in a city we can see the cost of living survey (SBH) is done 5 years. The CPI and later will determine the amount of the Consumer Price Index.

Then any city in Indonesia which has the highest cost of living based on the last SBH (2012).

Jakarta
Jakarta seems to have become common knowledge has the highest cost of living in Indonesia. As the capital city, Jakarta has a CPI of Rp 7,500,726

Jayapura
Yang occupying the second position is a city that comes from eastern Indonesia. Jayapura is the capital of Papua province occupies two city after Jakarta and CPI amounted to Rp 6,939,057

Ternate
Still in the eastern region, the third city with the highest cost of living is the city of Ternate. The city is the capital of North Maluku province has a CPI of Rp 6,427,357.

Depok
Depok is in the fourth position as the city with the most expensive living costs. The town is situated not far from the capital Jakarta has a CPI of Rp. 6.33069 million.

Batam
town is located in Riau Islands Province ranks fifth. The town is also adjacent to the state of Singapore has a CPI of Rp 6,307,136 which only have a little difference with the city of Depok.

Manokwari
Return again to the eastern part of Indonesia, namely the city of Manokwari. The town is located in Papua region Parat is also known to have a nice sight. Manokwari has a CPI of Rp 6,269,296 per month.

Now that he's a list of cities in Indonesia with high living costs. Of course, the above indicators have common properties with the value of household consumption amounting to 4 people.

The surveys can be made the benchmark but how great the need for cost of living is also depending on the pattern and lifestyle.

source: vevnews