Two women's testimonies of sexual violence during the 1965-1966 Indonesian massacres

This chapter investigates some of the gendered forms of violence perpetrated during the Indonesian genocide of 1965–1966. Specifically, it examines the accounts of two women from West Sumatra, Ibu Jusufa and Ibu Tati, in which they discuss their experiences of this violence. In their testimonies, they gave witness to a range of sexual and gender-based violence, including rape, sexual harassment and assault, forms of sexual enslavement, and pregnancy as a result of rape. Pohlman argues that these women’s stories of violence and survival during the Indonesian killings can contribute to wider research paradigms into gendered experiences of violence during genocide, mass atrocities and other forms of mass conflict