Zakaria M. Passe was a short-story writer, poet and journalist born in Langsa, East Aceh, on 1 June 1942. He edited Pelangi and Panji Revolusi in Medan, later became an editor at Tempo in Jakarta, and hosted cultural programmes on RRI Nusantara III Medan. His stories appeared in Mimbar Indonesia and Horison, his poems in the anthology Terminal (1971), and he wrote the book Akbar Haji Akbar (1989). He died in Jakarta on 8 November 1998.