Although it has been composed of 5 (five) new autonomous regions, but to build the Nias Islands must be done integratively because it is in one region and supported by the similarity of identity, that is a unity as Nias ethnicity. But the fact is showing that the bureaucracy elites are difficult to cooperate, trying to build their own identity based on their territory. The focus of this research is to find out why bureacucracy elites are doing contestation after the teritorial split, what local identities are used and how local identities are used. To explain the phenomenon as the locus of this research, the theoretical concept politics of identity from Giddens were using to explore why the local elite was using politic of identity to control local resources, what interests are behind them all? Under such identity conditions, bureaucracy elites construct an identity for the interests of the elite and put more emphasis on the power aspect to gain political and economic resources. Methodologically, this research is a qualitative research with descriptive approach, so the description of the phenomena seen in Nias Island can be interpreted and better understood. The results of this study showing that, the hidden agenda of the contestation among the bureaucracy elite in the Nias Islands basically is to set up a new power in the new territory. Local identity that is carried out is the result of reconstruction of the elite as as flexible identity of the ethnic community of Nias.