In this question, there are five sentences/paragraphs. The sentence/paragraph labelled A is in its correct place. The four that follow are labelled B, C, D and E are need to be arranged in logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate option.
- Indonesia has experienced dramatic shifts in its formal governance arrangements since the fall of President Soeharto and the close of his centralized, authoritarian “New Order” regime in 1997.
- The political system has taken its place in the nearly 10 years since Reformasi began. It has featured the active contest for political office among a proliferation of parties at central, provincial and district levels; direct elections for the presidency (since 2004); and radial changes in central-local government relations towards administrative, fiscal and political decentralization.
- The mass media, once tidily under Soeharto’s thumb, has experienced significant liberalization as has the legal basis for non-governmental organization, including many dedicated to such controversial issues as corruption control and human rights.
- Such developments are seen optimistically by a number of donors and some external analysts, who interpret them as signs of Indonesia’s political normalization.
- A different group of analysts paint a picture in which the institutional forms have changed, but power relations have not. Vedi Hadis argues that Indonesia’s “democratic transition” has been anything but linear.
- BDEC
- CBDE
- CEBD
- DEBC
- BCDE