Inflation Control Information System for North Sulawesi Province,

Indonesia

Made Krisnanda, Nengah Ganawati, Parabelem Tinno Dolf Rompas, Julyeta Paulina Amelia

Runtuwene, and Nova Christian Immanuel Mamuaya

Universitas Negeri Manado, North Sulawesi Indonesia

Keywords: Market,price,system,inflation,website.

Abstract: Traditional markets have a large influence on inflation in Indonesia. The reason is because traditional

markets offer more competitive prices compare to anywhere else. The North Sulawesi Province Inflation

Control Team (TPID Sulut) is tasked with overseeing the movement of staple food prices which has a major

impact on inflation in North Sulawesi Province. Periodically TPID should monitor traditional markets as a

key indicator of price movements. This study is intended to assist TPID Sulut to monitor and stabilize price

movements in traditional markets. The data obtained from the traditional market is processed so that it can

be used by the community as a benchmark price in the region. In this study, website-based information

system was built to facilitate TPID in processing data and sharing basic material information in traditional

markets.

1 INTRODUCTION

North Sulawesi's high and sustainable economic

growth can be achieved through the stability of

prices of goods and services, which is reflected in

the inflation rate of Manado City. In this regard,

efforts to safeguard the inflation rate of Manado City

in a low and stable level are very important.

However, economic activities in the region are still

faced with a variety of fundamental problems such

as low connectivity, low efficiency of the logistics

system, high dependence of food productivity on

weather factors, and a distorted market structure.

The implication of the various problems

mentioned above is that efforts to achieve the

inflation target require the solid policy that

coordinates between monetary, fiscal and sector

policies - including the policies of the Regional

Government - through the central Inflation Control

and Monitoring Team (TPI) and the Regional

Inflation Control Team (TPID) at the regional level.

However the improvement of usability,

effectiveness, transparency and accountability of

government administration becomes very important

and urgent. Website could and often used by

organizations to present information to customers or

anyone as a means to promote improvement as

mention above. With the great need to always keep

abreast of technology and its alignment with

business, the creation of a dynamic website requires

reliable frameworks and personnel. Collaboration

between humans, networks, hardware, software, and

databases as information system will complement

website as solution for this problem.

This study aims to help TPID solve the problem

of inflation in the province of North Sulawesi with a

web-based information system. The designed system

is used to record price movements in Manado city

markets which are the main indicators of regional

inflation.

TPID

TPID as a coordination forum has an increasingly

strategic role in supporting the achievement of the

low and stable inflation target in the region. The

formation of TPIDs is encouraged to the level of

District / City in order to strengthen the institutional

aspects of the TPID. This is inseparable from the

fact that the TPID at the Regency / City level must

aware of the current conditions faced by the region

regarding price control conditions.

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Krisnanda, M., Ganawati, N., Rompas, P., Runtuwene, J. and Mamuaya, N.

Inﬂation Control Information System for North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia.

DOI: 10.5220/0009009302460250

In Proceedings of the 7th Engineering International Conference on Education, Concept and Application on Green Technology (EIC 2018), pages 246-250

ISBN: 978-989-758-411-4

The TPID as part of the civil servant carries out

various work programs which include: Technical

Team Meetings, High Level Meetings, and Regional

Coordination Meetings. TPID also conducts various

other activities related to inflation control in North

Sulawesi, such as visits to markets and strategic

places, in an effort to maintain supply availability

and price affordability in the face of religious

holidays, as well as public service announcements

regarding wise consumption. These activities can be

simplified using information technology

2 METHOD

The information system website development

process has a high level of complexity. Often the

user or organizational environment demands a

sudden change, which is not anticipated by the

development team. This condition is difficult to

anticipate by conventional systems development

methods such as Waterfall or Spiral. The choice of

methodology plays an important role in the

possibility of success of a project. Scrum makes a

significant difference because the software produced

will be adapted to the environment as the system

develops. One important difference is the backlog,

which is a list of user needs that must be in the

product to be completed. Unlike the other

methodologies, this backlog can change at each

stage of system development. In addition to

consisting of several Sprints, SCRUM consists of

three phases with the following details:

2.1 Pregame

Determined from existing backlogs, including

schedules and costs. If a new system will be

developed, this phase will consist of a

conceptualization and analysis process. If the project

consists of the development of the old system, this

phase will consist of limited analysis.

2.2 Development

Development of Sprints: development of new

derivative functions, taking into account the

variables of time, needs, quality, costs, and

completion. The interaction of these variables will

determine the end of this phase. The system will use

some Sprint development, repetition for system

development.

2.3 Closure

Closure: product release preparation, including

documentation and testing .The complete picture of

the phases are shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Scrum Methodology Phases.

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3 INFLATION CONTROL

INFORMATION SYSTEM

The inflation control information system is a website

developed to input strategic commodity prices

regularly and display them on the internet so that

community in the region can monitor price

movements in traditional market. The reason why

traditional market was chosen to collect data was

because most of the inflation commodities in the

province of North Sulawesi were sold and purchased

there. Central Bank of Indonesia (BI) determined

there are nine main commodities that influence

inflation the most in North Sulawesi Province,

which are:

 Rice

 Chili

 Egg

 Fish

 Cooking oil

 Wheat flour

 Cement

 Garlic

 And Tomatoes

Thus the price movements of these nine

commodities need to be monitored to facilitate the

determination of regional policies. The prices of

these commodities will be recorded every day.

Important information presented on this site include:

 Commodity prices

 News about commodities

 Markets and stores where commodities are sold

 Tables and charts of changes in commodity

prices

In addition to the information above there are

several roles of users who have different tasks and

access on the website pages. The role is divided into

the following:

 Administrator: responsible for managing user

access rights along with news and market and

store profiles

 Operator: tasked with entering commodity

price data every day

 Authorization: tasked with checking data

entered by the operator before displayed to the

site.

 Public: see information displayed on the site.

3.1 Website Feature

To summarize the features needed in the website, it

is necessary to interview users, especially the TPID.

Table 1 shows interviews resulted in the following

requirements and explained in feature and Actor List of

the Website..

Table 1: Feature and Actor List of the Website.

Feature

Actor

Commodities Price Input

Operator

Commodities Price Display

Public

Authorization

Administrator

Tables and Graphics of the Price Movements

Public

News Input

Operator

News Display

Public

Traditional Market and Store Profile Input

Operator

Traditional Market and Store Profile Display

Public

Price Request via SMS

Public

The construction of commodity price website starts

with the first feature and system design. The system

design itself is carried out by system analysts

including business processes, interfaces, and

databases. After the new design is completed then it

becomes the task of the programmer to do the

coding until it can be tested by the project manager.

This process is also carried out for other features in

the backlog, and if it is not completed the advanced

Sprint is carried out until the product produced

meets the needs of the user.

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4 RESULTS

The results of this study are a good response from

TPID and the community. TPID sends its staff every

day to record the prices of the nine main

commodities in traditional markets and major shops.

Price movements are displayed in the URL address:

http://tpidsulut.org/index.php?module=grafik&show

=harga. On this page the price movements of the

main commodities are displayed within one month.

Figure 2: Chart of price movements of major commodities within one month.

Figure 2 shows Chart of price movements of major

commodities within one month .

As time goes by it can be seen that the SMS feature

is a favorite feature of the community as shown in

Figure 3.

Figure 3: SMS webpage as a favorite feature of the

community

TPID acknowledges that with this website inflation

on holidays, especially Christmas and New Year can

be anticipated more quickly.

5 CONCLUSIONS

Features and information updates greatly affect the

number of visitors to a website. The emergence of

Scrum Methodology proves that system

development projects require more flexibility from

day to day to meet customer satisfaction. This is

especially common in the development of web-

based applications, which is a way to achieve

competitive advantage.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors wish to express their appreciation to

Institution of Research and Community Services

Universitas Negeri Manado, Ministry of Research,

Technology, and Higher Education of Republic of

Indonesia which given funding all of the study

activities, and to Rector of Universitas Negeri

Manado, Indonesia who has agreed our study.

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