Many countries reported that the Green Revolution (GR) caused some adverse effects on agricultural lands, but no such report came from Indonesia. In order to evaluate the effect of GR on sawah soil in Indonesia, a comparative study between seedfarms, where GR technology has been continuously applied, and non-seedfarms was done in Java as a pioneer of adoption of this new technology. Soil samples collected by Kawaguchi and Kyuma in 1970 and the new samples taken in 2003 from the same sites or the sites close to the 1970 sampling sites were analyzed and compared. For 40 sites compared, the land use pattern of sawah in seedfarms and non-seedfarms were found very similar and just increase in cultivation intensity in last three decades. The soil properties in 0 – 20 cm soils layer changed more than in 0 – 100 cm soil layer for all parameters observed. The mean values of Total Carbon (TC) and Total Nitrogen (TN), exchangeable acidity and available Phosphorus (P) contents increased significantly from 31.9±10.6 to 40.4±12.8 Mg ha^-1; 3.04±1.10 to 3.97±1.08 Mg ha^-1; 9.3±3.09 to 13.2±3.7 kmol_c ha^-1 and 136.6±154.7 to 255.7±292.4 kg P₂O₅ ha^-1, respectively. The mean soil pH and exchangeable sodium (Na) decreased significantly from 6.90±0.77 to 5.84±0.90 and from 3.28±2.76 to 1.67±2.06 kmol_c ha^-1, respectively. There were no significant differences found for exchangeable calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), potassium (K) and Effective Cation Exchange Capacity (ECEC) within the period of study. The land management difference between seedfarm and non-seedfarm affected the change pattern of those soils properties. The TC and TN contents in 0 – 20 cm soil layer in seedfarm increased by 4.7 Mg ha^-1 and 0.8 Mg ha^-1, which were lower than those in non-seedfarm that increased by 11.6 Mg ha^-1 and 1.0 Mg ha^-1, respectively. The available P content increased by 194 kg P₂O₅ ha^-1 in seedfarm and 57 kg P₂O₅ ha^-1 in non-seedfarm; while the soil pH decreased by 1.25 and 0.90 followed by declining of exchangeable Na by 1.42 and 1.77 kmol_c ha^-1 in respective sites. The exchangeable K content in seedfarm was increased slightly, but decreased significantly in non-seedfarm by 0.30 kmol_c ha^-1. These results showed long term cultivation of rice and upland crop in rotation pattern in non-seedfarms seemed more sustainable than monoculture with heavy chemical fertilizers in seedfarms which tends to lead to acidification and accumulation of P in soil. Key words: available phosphorus, exchangeable acidity, exchangeable cations, green revolution and Java.