What was Suriname's government?

Answer 1

Tribal law, European colonial rule and then autonomy are what served as government in Suriname before independence on November 25, 1975.

Specifically, Suriname's settlement was characterized by clustering more along the country's Atlantic coastline and northward flowing rivers and less in the country's vast rain forest interior. The first wave of settlers, populations indigenous to the Caribbean islands, was governed by tribal elders and in accordance with tribal traditions. The second wave of settlers, made up of English and then Dutch traders, was organized as colonies of the respectively English and then Dutch motherlands and in accordance with the profit motive. Suriname was ruled first as a separate colony and then as part of the Netherlands Antilles in the Dutch West Indies of the Caribbean Sea. In 1954, the country was separated once again from other Dutch holdings and allowed governmental autonomy until complete independence from the European Kingdom of the Netherlands twenty-one (21) years later.