Your food and the names seem very close to Indonesian dishes. Is there any connection? 🤔
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Suriname has peoples from all over during colonial times, who were either enslaved or worked as indentured workers on the plantations after abolishment of slavery. So came indentured laborers from Java (Indonesia) to Suriname and part of my ancestry is Javanese.
Here's some information regarding indentured workers:
https://www.ru.nl/hdsc/online-sources/suriname-migration-registers-indentured-labourers/suriname-migration-registers-labourers-east-indies/#:~:text=Indentured%20labourers%20in%20Suriname%20from,abolition%20of%20slavery%20in%201863.
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