Witsanti (also Wit Santi[1]) is an indigenous village of Lokono and Kalina[1] Amerindians in the resort of Zuid in the Para District in Suriname.
The village is located on the John F. Kennedyweg near the Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport.
It started in 2007, when a court awarded 643 hectares of land which included a burial ground of the village to two Dutch heirs of the Tempoca plantation.
[4] Steven Relyveld [nl], who was born in Witsanti,[5] was elected Minister of Land Policy and Forest Management in 2013.
[6] A demonstration lead to the arrest of Patrick Mandé, the village chief, and one of his basjas (council members).