This study is conducted upon 27 village leaders in two sub-districts of Banyumas (Wangon and Ajibarang) as the areas of investment development plan in Banyumas, Central Java, Indonesia. The purposes of this study are: (1) to figure out the understanding of heads of the villages in Banyumas related to the leadership issues, especially on global insight leadership, (2) to know the preparation of village leaders to face the AEC, and (3) to create global insight leadership model that may become input for policy makers in Banyumas. Data are obtained through in-depth interviews with the informants or respondents by having an intensive and close relationship. Data are collected by having in-depth interviews to create openness and focus group discussion (FGD). The results of this study show that: (1) heads of the villages mostly had organizational experience that might be used to understand the leadership patterns, (2) the respondents also had basic understanding on local issues and new regulations related to village governance, for instance Village Acts that they obtained from socializations and trainings conducted by the local governments and other sources of information, (3) understanding related to AEC was very poor and most of them stated that they had never involved in global interactions, (4) less competence of foreign language faced either by of the village leaders or officials, and lack of ability to access technology, and (5) there was no official dissemination from the local governments.