Ida Does, née Chin-A-Loi (born 1955), is a Surinamese-born Dutch journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker.

[1] She left Suriname as a young child to attend school, studying at the Media Academy of Hilversum and the Maurits Binger Film Institute of Amsterdam.

[1][2] After completing her education, Chin-A-Loi returned to Suriname, but fled to Aruba in 1982 after the Moiwana massacre during the dictatorship of Dési Bouterse.

[3][4] Does began her career as a journalist, publishing Dutch-language articles in various media such as Algemeen Dagblad, Vrij Nederland, and other magazines and newspapers in Aruba, the Netherlands, and Suriname.

[1][5] In the late 1980s, she combined social work with media, producing an informational film about the cultural problems of immigrant girls attending the Anne Frank Secondary School in The Hague.