Dynamics of Coverage Area Private Senior High School: Case Study Senior High School Batik 1 Surakarta

The expansion policy of vocational high school's students and the restriction of students' high school relate to the capitalism interest in education. The bigger number of vocational high school's students will ensure the labors in industrial sector. The policy pressure directs to the survival of senior high school, especially private high school. This research is aimed to know the dynamic of coverage area and spatial tactic of private high school when it gets the policy pressure. The private high school in this study was SMA Batik 1 Surakarta. Qualitative data were obtained through interview, document, and observation to support the analysis of coverage area dynamic for 9 years. The framework of analysis was based on the theory of spatial production of Henry Lefebvre and De Carteau. The result of the research shows that continuous policy pressure changed the coverage area, especially on its density. The phenomenon apparently depended on the supervisors or regulation upholders. It was not solely on the regulation material. Low density happened if the regulation supervisors were from the central and province level. Meanwhile, high density happened if the regulation upholders were from low level (local). The change phenomenon of coverage area density was actually from the success of doing spatial tactic. The actions were conducted through negotiation with regulators, socialization with the same school and readiness to compete with other schools.