ABSTRACT
Culture is very important especially when encountered with the courtesy of relationship
among people from various nations. Culture also implied national identity that differentiable
between the countries. This study aims at identifying a nation identity through a survey of a
university students that had a variety of background including ethnics and regions. A sample
of 76 of civil engineering students were obtained in this study. Instruments of culture
dimension were adopted from five Hofstede and Hall. Results of thestudy identified that the
national culture of Indonesia based on five dimension from Hofstede and Hall has the scale of
35, 58, 41, 49, and 67 for, power distance, individualism, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity,
and long term orientation respectively. The study found that there was no significant different
of the five national culture dimensions between the ethnics of Java, Chinese, and other. The
study also found that there were no significant different between each culture dimension
against ethnics of Java, Chinese and others. This implied that the national identity has been
solid among the ethnics. With the diversity of ethnics and sub culture in the region, Indonesia
currently considered the lowest power distance among the Asian countries