PUEBI

PUEBI, short for Pedoman Umum Ejaan Bahasa Indonesia, is the official orthography standard for the Indonesian language. It governs how Indonesian is written in government, education, publishing, and media. The guidelines were issued by the Badan Pengembangan Bahasa dan Perbukuan, under the Ministry of Education and Culture, and began to be implemented in the mid-2010s as the current framework for spelling, punctuation, and related conventions.

PUEBI covers domains such as spelling of native and loanwords, hyphenation rules for compound terms, capitalization of proper names and titles, and punctuation usage. It also provides guidelines for the representation of affixes, word formation, and the preferred spellings of new terms arising from technology and globalization, with attention to consistency across official texts and publications.

PUEBI supersedes earlier Indonesian orthography guidelines, notably the Ejaan Yang Disempurnakan (EYD) and the previous Ejaan Republik. The shift reflects efforts to align spelling with contemporary Indonesian pronunciation and morphology, and to harmonize writing across government, education, media, and publishers in Indonesia. Transitional guidance and references remain in use during the adoption period.

Today, PUEBI is widely used as the standard reference for Indonesian spelling. Writers, editors, and educators consult it for authoritative spellings and conventions. Updates and digital editions are published by the language development agency, often in collaboration with other government bodies.