ABSTRACT
Testimonio is the political and analytical framework. Those aspects of testimonio which demand a response from the reader, underline the inescapable presence of multiple voices within the narratives, and with what result in post-Suharto Indonesia. Specific discursive strategies found within the narratives highlight some of the issues which permit or proscribe the articulation of certain stories. Specific characteristics of testimonio offer a way for the narratives of women survivors of the 1965–66 killings and political imprisonment to achieve greater circulation both in and outside Indonesia. One of the most important and distinctive features of testimonio is that the narratives are told in order to elicit a response in the reader/listener. The settings for speaking are vitally important to the telling of women's narratives of genocide, torture and political imprisonment under the New Order. Testimonio raises issues of truth, truth-telling, multiple subjectivities and the situations of urgency and trauma from which they emerge.
