‘Little known about oppression and resistance methods of Javanese contract workers’

“I am proud of this young man, because he has continuously paid attention to women in his research and in the Netherlands also to groups that are not so visible in society.” This is how Rita Tjien Fooh, the head of the National Archives of Suriname (NAS), spoke about her son Jonathan, who lives in the Netherlands and is temporarily in Suriname in connection with anthropological research that should be completed in 2026. He gave an interim report…