Nation building in Tanzania was similar to that of Indonesia, despite differences in region, religion and race. Tanzania is very ethnically diverse, as it is divided into 120 different ethnic groups. Like Indonesia, it has been governed for many years by a strong one-party state, which has made nation-building a clear objective. Tanzania's founding president, Julius Nyerere, played a similar role to that of Sukarno in Indonesia. Nyerere constructed a national identity with a socialist ideology and instead of using ethnicity, he used his doctrine of ujamaa or African socialism. Like Sukarno, Nyerere had very little patience with Western liberal notions, such as pluralism. Nyerere wanted a one-party system of government so he could reorganize society. Tanzanians were pushing for a national language to eliminate all regionalisms and different individual ethnic identities. Furthermore, many other new African rulers were only focusing their political ideology in the cities during their regime, however Nyerere did not only focus on the cities, he also focused in the countryside, where it was still a very rural environment.