Some non-native English speaker teachers have trouble constructing the identity of an English speaker in their professional practice, although they have spent years in formal educational institutions to learn and teach the language. In the context of Indonesian English language teaching, the topic of whether the proliferation of native speaker standards contributes to the battle is one that is rarely investigated. As a result, the goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of native speakerism on the construction of English speaker identity among Indonesian teachers of English. In this particular research project, the participants consisted of two female English teachers who worked at different senior high schools in Aceh, Indonesia. Life-history interviews and teacher journals serve as the research instruments, and the discursive perspective on identity serves as the theoretical underpinning for this study. Through the use of thematic analysis, this study found that the participants struggled to construct the identity of an English teacher as an English speaker due to the belief that a native English speaker is an ideal English speaker.