Martinus Abednego was born in Citeureup, Bogor, Dutch East Indies, on March 10, 1910.

One of his friends was the child of the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Johan Paul van Limburg Stirum.

[4] He was appointed as the general secretary of the party in the 2nd congress of the party, replacing Albert Mangaratua Tambunan who had been appointed as the member of the Working Committee of the Central Indonesian National Committee (KNIP).

[5] During the Round Table Conference, Abednego was appointed as the general advisor for the Indonesian delegates.

[8] He also managed to propose the revocation of the Article 177 of the Indische Staatsregeling (State Law of the Dutch East Indies), which stated that all Christian missionaries could only perform ministries of service after permitted by the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, and that the missionaries' activity was limited to a certain region.

[9] Under the pressure of the Council of Churches in Indonesia,[10] the government officially banned the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1976.

[13] During his study at the HKS, Abednego met a Javanese woman named Sri Muryan from Central Java.