After the Japanese surrender, the building reverted to the Portuguese military, as the barracks of the "Caçadores" ("Rangers") regiment. In the 1960s, it was occupied by the "Companhia de Intendência" (Logistics and Services Detachment). It became vacant when the Detachment moved to in 1972, but was taken over by an Indonesian military unit following the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975.