He was opposed to the creation of the state, but agreed to serve as Wali Negara at the insistence of the people of West Java and the Indonesian government based in Yogyakarta, despite being ill at the time.

His father R. Adipati Koesoemahdilaga, the regent of Bandung, died when he was five years old, resulting in him being taken care of by his mother.

At the suggestion of professor Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, he transferred to the Hogere Burgerschool (HBS) in Batavia.

[citation needed] His inauguration as regent took place on 12 April 1920, and it received great attention.

With all the Regents in Parahyangan being present at the ceremony, alongside a number of other civil servants and military officers.

One 18 June 1921, he, to enliven the Java Institute Congress, held a tonil (play) in the courtyard of the Bandung Regency Pendopo.

In that part, when some of the gods descended from heaven, carrying all the necessities to cut the rice, one by one knelt and worshiped in order and carefulness; the silence of the play was felt to seep into the bones and marrow stopping the breathing and heartbeat […] The thousands of people were silent and did not say a word, so that in the comedy the yard was lonely and very quietIn 1920, he was elected to the Volksraad, representing the Sedio Moelio, the association of the regents, and took his seat in 1921.

When the province of West Java was created by the colonial government in 1926, Wiranatakusumah V was elected as a member of the Provinciale Raad (Provincial Council).

During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, he remained as regent until 24 June 1945, when he was replaced by Suriaputra.

[15] Following the Proclamation of Independence on 17 August 1945, he was appointed by President Sukarno to the office of Minister of Home Affairs of Indonesia in the Presidential Cabinet.

[16] In 1948, the third West Java conference, was held from 23 February until 5 March 1948, to elect the government of the newly created state of Pasundan.

[17] Though he was initially opposed to the creation of the state, he agreed to serve as Wali Negara at the insistence of the people of West Java and the Indonesian government based in Yogyakarta, despite being ill at the time.

[16] On 19 March 1948, Wiranatakusumah finally arrived in the Andir Airfield (now Husein Sastranegara International Airport) in Bandung.

The inauguration was attended by the Lieutenant Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, Hubertus van Mook, the General Secretary of the Provisional Federal Government, Abdulkadir Widjojoatmodjo, and the Recomba (government commissioner for administrative affairs) of West Java, Hilman Djajadiningrat.

On 10 February 1950, located at the Pakuan building, the residence of the Wali Negara, Wiranatakusumah, represented by his deputy, Djuarsa, handed over his power as the Wali Negara of Pasundan to the Commisary of the United States of Indonesia for West Java, Sewaka.

Yahya also stated that Wiranatakusumah V deserved to be made a national hero for his efforts to maintain the unity of the Republic of Indonesia, but that "It takes a process.

Shortly thereafter he remarried to R. A. Euis Koeraesin, they had a single child together, but again he divorced her, making this his shortest marriage.