Three Dutch naval ships, HNLMS De Ruyter, HNLMS Java and HNLMS Kortenaer, were lost during the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942, claiming the lives of 915 sailors. Although the ships were relocated in 2002, no official action was taken until 2016 when an international diving team from the Karel Doorman Foundation discovered that the warships had disappeared. This created tension between the government of Indonesia and those countries that had lost ships in the archipelago, especially the Netherlands. A three-track cooperation agreement was set up to investigate the disappearance of the three Dutch wrecks with the aim of understanding what had happened, in order to create a better basis for cooperation in the future. The management and protection of shipwrecks from WWII is very complicated, because of the different values that stakeholders attach to them. Only with the proper understanding and consideration of the different values or significance WWII shipwrecks hold for different stakeholders can new ways of managing these complex sites be developed that have long-term effectiveness. This paper argues that different stakeholder groups from both the flag and the coastal state must work together on this issue.

三艘荷兰海军舰艇，HNLMS De Ruyter，HNLMS Java和HNLMS Kortenaer在1942年2月27日的爪哇海战役中丧生，夺去了915名水手的生命。尽管这些船在2002年被重新安置，但直到2016年才采取正式行动，当时卡雷尔·门德曼基金会的国际跳水队发现军舰不见了。这在印度尼西亚政府与那些在群岛上丢失船只的国家（尤其是荷兰）之间造成了紧张关系。建立了一项三轨合作协议，以调查三个荷兰沉船的消失，目的是了解发生了什么事，以便为今后的合作创造更好的基础。第二次世界大战中沉船的管理和保护非常复杂，因为利益相关者赋予它们不同的价值。只有正确理解和考虑第二次世界大战沉船对不同利益相关者所具有的不同价值或重要性，才能开发出具有长期有效性的新方法来管理这些复杂的地点。本文认为，船旗国和沿海国的不同利益相关者团体必须在这个问题上共同努力。