Cilacap Regency has 269 villages. The existence of Village Owned Enterprises (BUMDes) is expected to accelerate the development of village potential that is able to improve the community's economy. This research uses qualitative descriptive and focuses on the challenges and opportunities of accelerating bumdes development towards developing status and advanced status. The results of this study show that most BUMDes in Cilacap Regency have various obstacles that have the potential to become an obstacle in the management of BUMDes. Problems for the management of BUMDes are found in all dimensions through bumdes development criteria, namely: 1) limited market coverage, 2) capital limitations, and 3) assets. Meanwhile, from the criteria that there is a growing status and advanced status, which is a weakness point in the asset indicator. This is a difficulty to carry out new business development and limited innovation in building local products.

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COVID-19 pandemic generated copious amounts of news regarding COVID-19 that is circulating among the public. Both positive (e.g., vaccine development) and negative (e.g., COVID-19 cases increase) news affect emotional states on an individual level, specifically for the student in higher education. They are struggling in challenging situations while adapting to online learning, which is not easy for them. This study aims to gain knowledge and gather empirical data on the COVID-19 news impact on young adult students in one of the public universities in West Java, Indonesia. We used an experimental approach in this study. Sixty participants were randomly assigned into control and experiment (i.e., being exposed to COVID-19 news) groups. Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule was used to measure participants' emotional state before and after the experiment. This study shows that COVID-19 news significantly decreases participants’ positive affect when participants have personal experience with COVID-19. Therefore, information sharing regarding COVID-19 has to be done with caution to protect individual emotional states during the pandemic. The student also should restrict the abundant information relating to COVID-19 to maintain their positive emotional state.