Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie was the first Indonesian President to be buried in the cemetery following his death on 11 September 2019.

[3] More than 7,000 military casualties and veterans from the Indonesian War of Independence are buried there.

This includes many veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army who stayed in the Dutch colony after World War II of their own free will and fought for Indonesian independence.

[5] Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited on 13 January 2002,[6] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited on 21 August 2007.

[8][9] The Emperor of Japan Naruhito with his Empress Masako, visited the Cemetery on 20 June 2023.