Saya tidak membenci siapa pun.

In Indonesian, tidak is used to negate verbs and adjectives, while bukan is mainly used to negate nouns, noun phrases, or to contradict an identification.

Here, membenci is a verb, so tidak is the correct choice:

Saya tidak membenci siapa pun.
= I do not hate anyone.

Compare:

• Saya tidak marah. = I am not angry.
• Dia bukan guru. = He/She is not a teacher.

So in this sentence, bukan would sound wrong.

The base word is benci, which is related to hate.
The form membenci is the more standard active verb form, created with the meN- prefix.

So:

• benci = hate / hateful / to hate, depending on context
• membenci = to hate someone/something

When you have a direct object, membenci is often the clearer, more standard form:

• Saya membenci dia. = I hate him/her.

In everyday speech, Indonesians also often say:

• Saya benci dia.

That is common and natural in conversation, but membenci sounds a bit more formal or careful.

Here, siapa pun means anyone.

The word siapa by itself means who.
Adding pun gives it a broader meaning like anyone, whoever, or no matter who, depending on the sentence.

So in this sentence:

• siapa pun = anyone

Because the sentence is negative with tidak, the whole meaning becomes:

• I do not hate anyone.

In standard Indonesian spelling, pun is usually written separately in expressions like this:

• siapa pun
• apa pun
• mana pun

So siapa pun is the standard written form.

Learners sometimes see siapapun online or in informal writing, but the standard spelling is siapa pun.

Not always. Its exact meaning depends on context.

It can mean:

• anyone
• whoever
• no matter who

For example:

• Siapa pun bisa belajar bahasa Indonesia.
  = Anyone can learn Indonesian.

• Saya tidak membenci siapa pun.
  = I do not hate anyone.

So the meaning shifts a little depending on whether the sentence is negative, general, or conditional.

Indonesian often expresses this idea with a negative verb + siapa pun, rather than with a separate word exactly like English no one.

So instead of saying something structurally like I hate no one, Indonesian commonly says:

• Saya tidak membenci siapa pun.

This is closer in structure to English I don't hate anyone.

That is a very normal Indonesian pattern:

• tidak
  • verb + siapa pun / apa pun / mana pun

Examples:

• Saya tidak melihat siapa pun. = I didn’t see anyone.
• Dia tidak mengatakan apa pun. = He/She didn’t say anything.

No, not in the way English learners sometimes worry about.

In this sentence, tidak is the actual negation.
siapa pun is not a second negation by itself. It works more like anyone in English.

So:

• Saya tidak membenci siapa pun.
• literally follows the pattern not + hate + anyone

This is completely normal Indonesian grammar.

Yes. That changes the pronoun, not the grammar.

• Saya = more neutral, polite, standard
• Aku = more informal, personal, intimate

So:

• Saya tidak membenci siapa pun. sounds neutral or formal.
• Aku tidak membenci siapa pun. sounds more casual and personal.

Both are correct. The best choice depends on who you are speaking to and the situation.

Yes, many people would say that in everyday speech.

Compare:

• Saya tidak membenci siapa pun. = more standard, somewhat more formal
• Saya tidak benci siapa pun. = more conversational

Both are understandable and natural.
The version with membenci is especially common in writing or careful speech.

The basic order is:

Subject + negation + verb + object

So here:

• Saya = subject
• tidak = negation
• membenci = verb
• siapa pun = object

That makes:

Saya tidak membenci siapa pun.

This is a very common Indonesian pattern.
You usually put tidak before the verb it negates.

Because siapa pun is the direct object of membenci.

In English, hate also takes a direct object:

• I hate him
• I hate nobody
• I don’t hate anyone

Indonesian works the same way here:

• Saya membenci dia.
• Saya tidak membenci siapa pun.

So no extra word like to or with is needed.

It is perfectly natural, correct, and clear.

However, its tone is a bit more careful or formal because of membenci. In casual conversation, people might also say:

• Saya tidak benci siapa-siapa.
• Aku nggak benci siapa-siapa.

These are more colloquial.

So the original sentence is excellent Indonesian, especially for standard speech and writing.