Coffee Shop as A Third Place for High School Students in Rembang

This article aims to find out why high school students in Rembang prefer coffee shops as a place to spend time both at school and outside school time. This study uses an ethnographic approach. The informants in this study are high school students who visited one of the coffee shops in Rembang. The results of this study indicate that coffee shops are part of the routine of high school students in spending their time. Even in school hours, students play truant and go to a coffee shop. There are various activities done in a coffee shop such as interacting with friends, sharing information, drinking coffee and smoking, using facilities such as accessing the internet, watching television, and playing games. A coffe shop is the place go when students feel lonely at home or after school.