Work Incentives in a Self-Determined Group

will have the status of resident foreigners. Since a majority of the Surinam Indonesians at this time seem to favor a return to their home country, it is certain they will choose in favor of an Indonesian citizenship; but this will not necessarily mean that they will return at once, unless the Republic of Indonesia should provide the necessary facilities. Representatives of the Djakarta government have already arrived in Surinam for the purpose of determining the will of the Indonesians domiciled there.13 Other ethnic groups, such as the Creoles and Hindustani, seem on the whole in favor of a return of the Indonesians, except for those who have had cheap Indonesian laborers in their employ and who fear that their departure will mean economic losses. Perhaps this is the nub of the Indonesian problem in Surinam: the use of the Indonesian primarily as a cheap labor force without an attempt to raise his social status or to integrate him in the rest of the com-