Pangkalpinang (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian government planned to establish a special embassy in Surinam and Aledonia in a bid to restore relations between the two nations which came from the same ancestors.
"There is a strong emotional bond between the people of Suriname and Aledonia because they come from the same ancestors. Therefore, the central government through the foreign ministry planned to establish special embassies in Surinam and Aledonia," he said here on Monday.
He further said that that people of Suriname were if Javanese descent who were sent to that country by the Dutch colonialists, while the people of Aledonia estimated at 600,000, originated from Makassar now living in South Africa.
At present, the Indonesian foreign ministry is exploring possibilities of establishing special embassies and hopefully in the near future that relations would be restored and strengthened with the presence of special embassies in Surinam and Aledonia.
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