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Its part of their locals who are slave workers brought in by the Dutch during the 19th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname#Ethnicity
Ethnicity
The largest ethnic group are
Indians, who form over a quarter of the population (27.4%).
[86][87][88][89][90] The vast majority are descendants of 19th-century indentured workers from India, hailing mostly from
Bhojpuri speaking areas of modern
Bihar,
Jharkhand, and northeastern
Uttar Pradesh,
Haryana and southeastern
Tamil Nadu.
If counted as one ethnic group, the
Afro-Surinamese are the largest community, at around 37.4%; however, they are usually divided into two cultural/ethnic groups: the
Creoles and the Maroons.
Surinamese Maroons, whose ancestors are mostly runaway slaves that fled to the interior, comprise 21.7% of the population. They are divided into six tribes:
Ndyuka (Aucans),
Saramaccans,
Paramaccans,
Kwinti,
Aluku (Boni) and
Matawai. Surinamese
Creoles, mixed people descending from African slaves and Europeans (mostly Dutch), form 15.7% of the population.
Javanese make up 14% of the population, and like the East Indians, descend largely from workers contracted from the island of
Java in the former
Dutch East Indies (modern
Indonesia).
[91] 13.4% of the population identifies as being of mixed ethnic heritage.
Chinese, originating from 19th-century indentured workers and some recent migration, make up 7.3% of the population.
Other groups include
Lebanese, primarily
Maronites, and
Jews of
Sephardic and
Ashkenazi origin, whose center of population was
Jodensavanne. Various
indigenous peoples make up 3.7% of the population, with the main groups being the
Akurio,
Arawak,
Kalina (Caribs),
Tiriyó and
Wayana. They live mainly in the districts of
Paramaribo,
Wanica,
Para,
Marowijne and
Sipaliwini.[
citation needed] A small but influential number of
Europeans remain in the country, comprising about 1% of the population. They are descended mostly from
Dutch 19th-century immigrant farmers, known as "
Boeroes" (derived from
boer, the
Dutch word for "farmer"), and to a lesser degree other European groups, such as
Portuguese. Many Boeroes
left after independence in 1975.
More recently Suriname has seen a new wave of immigrants, namely
Brazilians and
Chinese (many of them laborers mining for gold). Most do not have legal status.
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The vast majority of Suriname's inhabitants (about 90%) live in
Paramaribo or on the coast.
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