Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 15 ga Agusta, 1945, Jafananci sun mika wuya
zuwa ga sojojin Allied. Kwana biyu bayan haka, aka ayyana sanarwar samun 'yancin kai na Indonesia. An ayyana Maluku a matsayin daya daga cikin lardunan Jamhuriyar Indonesia. Koyaya, samuwar da matsayin Maluku a wancan lokacin ya tilasta faruwa a Jakarta, saboda da zaran Jafananci sun mika wuya, nan da nan Hukumar Kula da Jama'ar Netherlands Indies (NICA) ta shiga Maluku don karɓar iko. Yaren mutanen Holland sun mallaki Maluku har zuwa 1949, lokacin da a cikin yarjejeniyar taron Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference, Yaren mutanen Holland sun yarda da ikon mallakar Indonesia. Ba da daɗewa ba 'yan Holland suka bar Maluku. Saboda tsananin rashin amincewa da shugabancin Indonesiya, wanda galibi Musulmi ne na Javanese, a cikin 1951 an ayyana Jamhuriyar Maluku ta Kudu mai zaman kanta (Indonesian: RMS, Republik Maluku Selatan) a Ambon, tare da goyon bayan Yaren mutanen Holland. RMS tana da goyan baya mai ƙarfi tsakanin tsoffin sojojin mulkin mallaka na Moluccans. A sakamakon haka, sojojin Indonesia sun mamaye Maluku don murkushe masu rabuwa. Babban sansanin gungun 'yan tawayen RMS a Ambon sojojin Indonesiya ne suka ci su a watan Nuwamba na 1950, yayin da gwagwarmayar' yan tawaye ta ci gaba a tsibirin Seram har zuwa 1962. Rashin nasara a kan Ambon duk da haka ya haifar da gudun hijirar gwamnatin RMS da aka ayyana daga tsibirin, da kuma kafa gwamnatin da ke gudun hijira a Netherlands. A shekara ta gaba sojojin Moluccan 12,000 tare da iyalansu suka tafi Netherlands, inda suka kafa gwamnatin "Jamhuriyar Moluccas ta Kudu" a gudun hijira.