Purpose β The purpose of this study is to get information on how the communication process transaction of commercial sex workers with customer occurs in province that practices Syariah law system. Junita, N. Published in the Emerald Reach Proceedings Series. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article for both commercial and non-commercial purposes , subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors.
Lhokseumawe is located in the northern part of Aceh province. It is known as the province that implemented and applied Syariah law. Most people are Muslims where women use hijab as their self-identity as a Muslim. In fact, based on field observation, there were two districts; Banda Sakti and Muara Dua as the stopover and meeting point for transaction between commercial sex workers and customers. This is because there are still places where prostitution is done secretly and confidentially.
This is also in line with news about conducting raids on immoral locations by residents at Lhokseumawe Mardani, The Lintas National news also reported about the police conducting raids on suspected sites in Lhokseumawe Fazil, The data from KPA Lhokseumawe showed that the total number of commercial sex workers were It is divided into two types, which were direct commercial sex workers work as the main job as 37 people and indirect commercial sex workers work not as the main job as 14 people.
It increased in to 43 people of direct commercial sex workers and 21 indirect commercial sex workers. However, the phenomenon above could contribute for social problem and negative impact toward young generation. The case of sex workers increases every year. How does this happen in Aceh that implements the syariah laws system? Therefore, in this study I would like to know the interpersonal communication patterns used by commercial sex workers in the process of transaction with customer as well as the barriers of communication interpersonal of commercial sex workers.
Then, sex workers sit together at one table, enjoying dinner and sing a song with customer. Commercial sex workers wear tight clothes and excessive make up. They used nonverbal communication of body language movement and facial expression to communicate. Then, leave the cafe together. They used media communication such as hand phone and social media such as facebook. Therefore, based on the above phenomenon, it is interested in conducting research on interpersonal communication of commercial sex workers transactions with customers in law area of Indonesia.
