Ordering of Page Items in Indesign

Hi,
I need to find the ordering (send to Back / send Backwards / Bring to Front / Bring Forward) of page items in Indesign using Apple script.
I couldn't find any solution . In which preferences i need to get this? Any Ideas about this?
Thanks,
Jacintha

The "page items" collection gives you the objects in their stacking
order, so the index of the item in the collection will be the
placement in the stacking order.
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(1)
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