The Sri Indera Sakti class was built by Bremer Vulkan in Germany.

The ships were designed as a platform of support and it was able to stay in the operational area for a long period of two months.

[3][4] Both ships also actively took part in the fight against piracy in the Gulf of Aden in December 2008.

In the same month, KD Sri Indera Sakti successfully aided the Chinese ship MV Zhenhua 4.

[5] In 2009, the KD Sri Indera Sakti dispatched two helicopters that successfully repelled two Somali pirate skiffs attempting to capture the Indian tanker MT Abul Kalam Azad.