Territory of Children’s Female Bedroom at Pesantren Al Hikmah II Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Pesantren is one of the places of choice for parents to educate their children with the hope that their children will one day get success in the world and the hereafter. but the age of children who tend to still depend on their parents will certainly regulate their behavior towards their environment to achieve their quality of life. The behavior of the territoriality of the child’s space in the boarding school is interesting to study how these children achieve their quality of life. The purpose of this research is to identify children’s behavior towards space settings, identify factors that form children’s space territoriality, and then find the concept of children’s space territoriality in pesantren in order to achieve quality of life. This research uses a qualitative descriptive method with a rationalistic approach. The scope of environmental and behavioral studies (EBS) research is about the relationship between human behavior and the environment. The results of the study show that the girls’ dormitory space area is included in the primary territory category because it is related to personal activities. Factors forming territoriality in a room are personal (personality, age, and gender), situational (physical order, time, distance, activity, rules, and comfort), and socio-cultural (rules, language, diversity of resident activities, and social sense).