abstract:After the creation of the Statute of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Royal Netherlands Army was entrusted with the defence of Suriname, while the defence of the Netherlands Antilles was the responsibility of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The army set up a separate Troepenmacht in Suriname (Forces in Suriname, TRIS).
The former military leader ofSuriname in the 1980s and early 1990s, Desi Bouterse won enough parliamentary support in July 2010 to be elected president.