This psychiatric hospital is one of the health institutions of the province of Maluku.
The hospital is situated on the Jalan Laksdya Leo Wattimena at Ambon City. The hospital is classified as a category B hospital (reg.code 8171063) and has got a bed capacity of
110 beds.
The website of the hospital is: www.rskd-maluku.com.
The website records among others a brief history which reads as follows: (Text Google translated and abbreviated):

Ambon Mental Hospital is one of the mental hospitals that was built during Prof. dr. Kusumanto at the Ministry of Health's Directorate of Mental Health. The Mental Hospital began operating as a Class B Mental Hospital with a room capacity of 54 beds and was built on an area of ​​?? 442 m2.

The main obstacle of this hospital is geographical constraints. Maluku is known as the “Thousand Islands” province, with an area of ​​851,000 KM2 and a population of 1,852,723. Functionally, the main obstacle is the occurrence of several riots with the result, the large number of employees who change to work and the occurrence of specific mental disorders. So that since 2002 a Trauma Center was opened by the local government and the local health office.

Construction of the Ambon Central Mental Hospital began in the 1981/1982 Fiscal Year. Ambon Central Mental Hospital began operating based on the Decree of the Head of the Regional Office of the Ministry of Health of Maluku Province Number: 874 / Kanwil / TU / II / 1985 dated September 14, 1985 and was inaugurated by the Indonesian Minister of Health at that time, Mr. dr. Adhyatma, MPH on October 12, 1990.

In 2001 the Ambon Central Mental Hospital was handed over from the Central Government; and become UPT Maluku Provincial Health Office as a mental health referral center in Maluku Province.

In accordance with the Maluku Provincial Regulation Number: 04 of 2007 concerning the formation of the organization and work procedures of the Maluku Province Regional Technical Institution, the Maluku Province Mental Hospital was changed to the Maluku Province Regional Special Hospital (RSKD) with the following Organizational StructurePimpinan RSJ Maluku:
1985 – 1989  dr. Yusman Efendi, Sp.KJ
1989 – 1999  dr. J. J. Thomarius, Sp.KJ
1999 – 1999  dr. Jonli Indra, Sp.KJ (Plt.)
2000 – 2003  Dra. Winangsih (Plt.)
2003 – sekarang dr. David Santoso T., Sp.KJ, MARS