The ships were built by the Korea-Tacoma Shipyard (now Hanjin Heavy Industries), Masan, South Korea in the early 1980s.

The class design was based on the LST-542-class tank landing ship.

The ships is powered by two diesel engines, with total sustained power output of 12,800 metric horsepower (9.4 MW) distributed in two shaft.

Two last ships of the class, Teluk Ende and Teluk Banten, are command ships and has distinguishing features such as the LCVP davits located forward of the bridge and the exhaust vents above the waterlines instead of funnels found on the other ships.

[2] It was noted that Teluk Ende was outfitted as a hospital ship but later was reverted back to landing ship and the Red Cross markings were removed.