Ambon War Cemetery is one of the island's most sobering historical places. It commemorates Allied servicemen and prisoners of war connected with the brutal Japanese occupation of Ambon during the Second World War, a history that is easy to miss if you only come for beaches and diving.
The cemetery is kept with the formal restraint typical of Commonwealth war graves: rows of markers, clipped grass, and a quietness that asks for time. Visit respectfully, and use it to place Ambon within the wider wartime story of eastern Indonesia and the Pacific.