General description and the regional economy of tarakan city
As a small island surrounded by sea, Tarakan has the potential of such a large marine. These resources have been utilized by most communities to make a living as fishermen and shrimp farmers. This abundance of seafood consumed by the local community in addition, most (especially shrimp) has been used as commodity exports by some employers through their Cold Storage. The presence of these companies can suck a large amount of labor that is helping local government in tackling the employment problem
Progress and development that had triggered the Tarakan City with the operation of several companies engaged in petroleum, eventually also developed into the City area Transit, Service Industries and Commerce
By Population Density: 716 people/km2, Income per Capita at Current Prices in 2006 (with Gas): USD 15,783,741.00, Economic Growth in 2006 (with Gas): 7.51%
Total Population over 15 Years in the Year 2009: 119 577 inhabitants, with a total work force is 74 273 inhabitants, who worked as many as 67 505 inhabitants, while the unemployment rate reached 6768 inhabitants.
The annual inflation rate of Tarakan City-2009 fourth quarter was recorded at 7.21% (yoy), higher than the annual inflation rate-2009 third quarter to reach 6.33%. Commodity group of food, beverages and tobacco commodity groups with the highest inflation rate, which is 15.93% (yoy), followed by clothing commodity groups (10.62%) and food commodity groups (9.89%) .
The economy of East Kalimantan in the first quarter-2010 is expected to experience positive growth, with an estimated growth rate ranged from 3.5% sd 4.5% (y-o-y). One indicator that the direction of positive growth can be seen from the Consumer Survey (SK) conducted by Bank Indonesia Samarinda in January 2010 which the Consumer Expectation Index (IEK), which is still above the level of optimism (100), that is equal to 135. This is influenced by the IEK components which are all located above the level of optimism