Culture has become one of the concerned issues in the field of language testing and evaluation. Therefore, this paper attempts to identify different cultures contained on test items, particularly whether the Indonesian culture is sufficiently represented. Qualitative method using a content analysis design is employed in the paper and the materials of the English national exam of the past three academic years are used as the data source. The rubrics of cultural types (source culture, target culture, and international culture) developed by Cortazzi and Jin (1999) are used to analyze the data. The findings reveal that the Indonesian cultures as the source culture are far less exposed compared to the target cultures, at 17 % and 46% respectively. Quite similar to the representation of the source cultures, the international cultures stand as the second highest percentage, at 20%. Thus, an imbalanced proportion of cultural representation in the test items is clearly observed, which implies the urgent need to establish a policy requiring the development of proportional cultural representation.
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