The formation of the ministry was done one month later, on 11 June 1948, after the handover of the authority from the Recomba (government commissioner for administrative affairs) to the Minister of Justice.

[3] The authority of the court system in Pasundan is reserved for the Supreme Court of the United States of Indonesia, while the authority of the prison system was run by the Ministry of Justice and the federal government.

[4][5] Due to the larger authorities held by the federal government, the Pasundan government was powerless to hinder the wide-scale political arrests of members of its Indonesian population by the Dutch; it could no nothing to succor them once they were arrested.

232, dated 23 September 1948, the duties of the Recomba that were handed over to the Ministry of Justice covered the following:[6] By the Decree of the Wali Negara No.

117 and 118 dated 25 November 1948, the Ministry of Justice was handed with the publishing of government gazettes.