When the dispute was settled in favour of BAE Systems, the vessels were handed over to Royal Brunei Technical Services in June 2007.
[7] On 13 April 2018, John Lie and KRI Bung Tomo arrived at Pondok Payung Pier, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, at 10:00.
In July 24, 2021, Cambodian government sent a diplomatic red notice through its embassy, requesting the support of Indonesian authorities to seize a rogue tanker ship, MT Strovolos, that reportedly stole 300 thousand barrels of oil from Cambodia.
At the time, John Lie was deployed on routine patrols on the waters of Anambas Islands Regency, managed to detect and seize the Bahaman-flagged MT Strovolos carrying 19 crew members.
The tanker carried 297,686.518 barrels of gross crude oil and sailed from Thailand towards Batam without activating its Automatic Identification System while in the Indonesian waters.