Sun, January 9, 2011 Published on Jan. 9, 2011 Published on 2011-01-09T14:02:08+07:00 hen Lisa Djasmadi got involved in writing and editing a book on Javanese people in Suriname, she discovered many ...

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian Ambassador to Suriname, Nur Syahrir Rahardjo, says Suriname’s natural resources have not been used to their maximum potential causing the Suriname government to ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Next year will be the 125 th anniversary of Javanese people migration to Suriname during the Dutch colonial era. To commemorate the event, the Netherlands cultural center in ...

When my husband was posted to Suriname on the north coast of South America, we had the weird feeling that we were going to a place that didn’t exist. It was in the mid-90s just before the internet ...

The Dutch West India Company was founded in 1621 to exploit the territory that today encompasses Suriname. Dutch supremacy was periodically interrupted by English and French attacks and by a slave ...

It’s rare for anyone—let alone a country—to know, with near absolute certainty, that they’re about to get really rich. But the tiny South American nation of Suriname is on the verge of doing just that ...

Suriname witnessed its national elections this year, as Chandrikapersad ‘Chan’ Santokhi takes his place as the President, the country looks forward to a new era of politics and prosperity. The ...