When the dispute was settled in favour of BAE Systems, the vessels were handed over to Royal Brunei Technical Services in June 2007.

Her original namesake is the Bruneian folk hero Bendahara Sakam, who took part in the Castilian War in the mid- to late 16th century.

[4][5] The Singapore government protested against the naming of the ship, as its namesakes Usman Haji Muhammad Ali and Harun Said had committed the 1965 MacDonald House bombing during the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation, resulting in three deaths and thirty-three casualties.

[6][7][8] In early January 2015, KRI Usman Harun was deployed to search for black boxes as the ship is equipped with the Thales Underwater Systems TMS 4130C1 hull-mounted sonar.

[9][10] On 11 January 2020, KRI Usman Harun was shadowed by China Coast Guard ships 5202 and 5203 off the Natuna Regency.