Tanzania's nation-building has been similar to that of Indonesia, despite regional, religious and racial differences. Tanzania is very ethnically diverse, being divided into 120 different ethnic groups. Like Indonesia, it was governed for many years by a strong one-party state, which made nation-building a clear goal. Tanzania's founding president, Julius Nyerere, played a similar role to 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 to be able to reorganize society. Tanzanians insisted that a national language could eliminate all regionalism and different individual ethnic identities. Furthermore, many other new African leaders focused their political ideology in the cities only in their regime. Yet Nyerere not only focused on the cities, but he also focused on the countryside, which was still a very rural region.