[5] The ship was planned to be armed with one Leonardo's OTO Marlin 40 ILOS naval gun, two 20 mm autocannons and MBDA SIMBAD surface-to-air missiles.

[10] The ship's construction was begun with first steel cutting and keel laying ceremony on 9 June 2022 at PT Karimun Anugrah Sejati shipyard in Batam, Riau Islands.

[11][12] On 20 June, the corvette was officially named as KRI Bung Karno (369) in the ship naming ceremony by then-Chief of Staff of the Navy Admiral Yudo Margono and Megawati Sukarnoputri, the 5th President of Indonesia and daughter of the ship's namesake.

[4][10] Bung Karno was commissioned on 1 June 2023, coinciding with Pancasila Day public holiday, at Military Sealift Command Headquarters in North Jakarta.

[13] Bung Karno took part in the 4th Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo 2023 which was held in the Makassar Strait on 5–7 June 2023.