Chinese Surinamese

They constitute the largest component of the 'other' ethnic category, which makes up 2.3% of the population as per the CIA World Factbook.

[2] The majority of the Chinese Surinamese consider Hakka (Dongguan, Huiyang, Huizhou or Bao'an, Shenzhen) of Guangdong as their ancestral homes.

The government of Java recruited a group of 18 Chinese for indentured labor in the Catharina Sophia plantation in Saramacca.

They arrived in Suriname in April, but it turned out that no one wanted to hire people to do work that slaves would do "for free".

Because of this, the contract with the Chinese was changed without their knowledge by Governor Charles Pierre Schimpf, in favor of the employers.

When they would revolt against this, they were, without due process and contrary to existing regulations, punished by police with cane strokes, an unlawful act that was repeated again and again.

The rapidly growing demand in China for wood and minerals makes Suriname very attractive to Chinese businesses.

[5] Beginning in the 1990s new migrants from China moved to Suriname,[4] and Putonghua, during circa 2004-2014, became the main Chinese lingua franca in the country.