Background
Henck Arron was born on 25 April, 1936 in Paramaribo, Suriname.
government official politician
Henck Arron was born on 25 April, 1936 in Paramaribo, Suriname.
Led the government until February 1980, when he was overthrown by a military coup d’etat led by Sergeant Desi Bouterse. Before entering politics, he had been a bank worker spending some time at the Bank of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and in a local bank upon returning to Surinam.
Henck Arron entered politics in 1963, when he was elected a Surinam National Party (NPS) member of the Surinam legislature, the Staten. After the defeat of the NPS government headed by Johan Adolf Pengel in 1969, Arron succeeded Pengel as leader of the NPS in the following year.
Arron led his party’s election campaign in 1973 and fought on the issue of attaining independence. After two years of negotiations with the Netherlands government and with those parties (principally representing the East Indian population) which until then had been opposed to independence. Minister President (prime minister) Arron was able to lead the country to independence in November 1975.
The Arron government faced serious economic problems rooted in the world oil crisis and complicated by charges of corruption. However, it was its opposition to unionization of members of the country’s armed forces which provoked a coup d’état led by sergeants.
Henck Arron was jailed by the new military rulers from February 1980 until 1981. Upon his release he returned to banking activities, becoming director of the Volkscredietbank in Paramaribo in 1982.