The producer price index (PPI) in August 2011 was 216.7 points (4. quarter 2005 = 100), 0.8% lower than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products was 255.4 points which is 0.5% higher than in July 2011 (effect on the index 0.2%) and the PPI for power intensive industry products was 257.5 points, 2.9% lower (-1.1%). The PPI for food products increased by 1.5% (0.1%) and the PPI for other manufactured products declined by 0.1%.
The PPI for domestically sold products was 1.2% (0.2%) higher than in the previous month while the index for exported products decreased by 1.3% (-1.0%).
Compared to August 2010 the PPI has increased by 17.2%. The PPI for fish products rose by 19.4% and the PPI for power intensive industry products increased by 20.7%. In the same period the PPI for food products rose by 8.7%.
| Monthly changes (%) | ||||||
| Power | ||||||
| intensive | ||||||
| Marine | industry | Food | Domestic | Exported | ||
| PPI | products | products | production | sales | products | |
| 2010 | ||||||
| August | -0.9 | -3.1 | -0.5 | -0.2 | 1.3 | -1.5 |
| September | 2.3 | 3.7 | 3.8 | -0.1 | -0.5 | 3.1 |
| October | -0.1 | 1.0 | -2.0 | 1.2 | 1.4 | -0.5 |
| November | 3.1 | 0.6 | 8.8 | 0.5 | -0.7 | 4.1 |
| Desember | 1.7 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| 2011 | ||||||
| January | 2.1 | 3.5 | 2.2 | 0.0 | -0.3 | 2.7 |
| February | 2.7 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 3.1 |
| March | 1.3 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.4 |
| April | 1.6 | 1.7 | -0.5 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 1.8 |
| May | 1.6 | 0.8 | 4.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.9 |
| June | 0.5 | 1.8 | -1.6 | 1.1 | -0.1 | 0.7 |
| July | 0.2 | 0.2 | -0.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | -0.2 |
| August | -0.8 | 0.5 | -2.9 | 1.5 | 1.2 | -1.3 |
| Annual changes (%) | ||||||
| Power | ||||||
| intensive | ||||||
| Marine | industry | Food | Domestic | Exported | ||
| PPI | products | products | production | sales | products | |
| 2010 | ||||||
| August | 1.8 | -4.8 | 11.5 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 2.2 |
| September | 1.4 | 0.8 | 3.2 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 1.3 |
| October | 1.0 | -2.2 | 5.8 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 0.5 |
| November | 2.9 | -2.6 | 12.8 | 3.3 | 1.6 | 3.3 |
| December | 2.6 | -3.6 | 11.0 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 2.4 |
| 2011 | ||||||
| January | 0.9 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 1.7 | 0.3 |
| February | 2.7 | 4.7 | 1.5 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 2.2 |
| March | 6.9 | 6.1 | 12.1 | 5.0 | 3.5 | 7.7 |
| April | 6.0 | 8.4 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 6.2 |
| May | 6.3 | 11.4 | 2.5 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 6.3 |
| June | 13.0 | 14.6 | 14.1 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 15.0 |
| July | 17.1 | 15.0 | 23.6 | 6.9 | 7.6 | 19.8 |
| August | 17.2 | 19.4 | 20.7 | 8.7 | 7.5 | 20.0 |
In evaluating the price changes accounted for here, it may be taken into consideration that the trade-weighted average price of foreign exchange in August 2011 was 0.7% lower than in the preceding month and 4.8% higher than in August 2010.