Abstract:
This study is based on fact of the commercial sex workers in the PSKW Andam Dewi Sukarami Solok, West Sumatra. They are individual who need help to get out from they job as commercial sex workers, they are need help to increasing religious consciousness. One approach that appropriate to increasing religious consciousness is islamic counseling. The purpose of this study is to find the causes of prostitutes, the problems encountered and examine the effectiveness of Islamic counseling to increasing religious consciousness. This research using a mixed method design, 5 subjects taken by porpusive random sampling. The results are: (1) the causes of prostitutes are economic factors, feelings of revenge with husband, less parental attention, social influence, and lack of religion consciousness, (2) the problems of ex prostitutes are feelings of discomfort, a sense of sin, the lack of believe in God, lack of worship, fear not accepted by society, and do not have adequate skills, (3) after clients were counseled, the research found an increase in religious consciousness of ex- prostitute, with a value of -9.375 T count 2,776 and the value of T table. Based on two-tailed test, H1 is accepted, and Ho is rejected. Based on this research, Islamic counseling effective to increasing religious consciousness. Hopefully, Islamic counseling can be used as one method to conduct training in various PSKW in Indonesia and especially PSKW Andam Dewi Solok, West Sumatra.
