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The potential of sub-optimal land that is tidal land is very wide estimated at 20.13 million ha, spread of in Sumatra, Kalimantan, Papua and Sulawesi, and 9.53 million ha suitable for agriculture. The tidal land is very important resource in order to meet national food needs in line with an increase in population and the rate of conversion of paddy fields, especially in Java. Agriculture aspect cannot possibly meet the needs of a growing population without technology. How is the readiness with the condition of our food, especially our domestic soybeans, facing the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 The Ministry of Agriculture continues to make breakthrough policies and programs to transform traditional agriculture into modern and improve the quality of human resources. Efforts of utilize and optimize tidal land as an area of soybean production development are expected to support the sustainability of national food. This paper presents the contribution of tidal land use to support food sustainability and its strategy from the aspect for the national soybean commodity. If mapped, the position of soybean agro-industry strength in tidal land is in quadrant II, Where, the business area is facing various threats, although the condition of this business still has strength from an internal influence. The threat from external (environmental) factors from the development of soybean commodity is the flood of imported soybeans which are always a competitor to local (domestic) soybeans, so that the comparative advantages of local soybeans is low. And other threats are limited soil fertility in tidal land. There are four strategies, namely: (1) Provision of permanent soybean planting areas; (2) Soil amelioration actions; (3) Increasing national soybean competitiveness; and (4) technology dissemination and promotion of domestic soybean use. Implementation of the strategy is to apply a model of corporate-based soybean agro-industry area. By using this agro-industry model the opportunities for modern agricultural technology use can be implemented.