There are some ideas in understanding the concept of nation. Generally, the nation is a community of kinship, especially a bounded, territory extensive, temporally deep community of nativity. The term of “community” deals with the awareness of the individual in recognizing oneself to be necessarily related to others. One of the examples is a community of family, where one is related to each other in that community. To understand the nation is to recognize the relation of one individual to another not only within a family, but also within the territorially extensive, nation (Grosby 14). The idea of nation as imagined community by Benedict Anderson can be seen in the media as cultural products. This essay tries to explore the theory of nation as imagined community in relation to the cultural products in the form of novel and magazine whereas nowadays there are still other mass media which, in fact, are bound to nationalist movements which can raise the imagination towards national identity.
