Dody

MEMORANDUM

Riehoff Dody, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1056 (9th Cir.2009), and we deny the petition.

The IJ denied Dody’s asylum application claim as time-barred. Dody does not challenge this finding in his opening brief.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s determination that Dody failed to establish past persecution. See Arriaga-Barrientos v. INS, 937 F.2d 411, 414 (9th Cir.1991) (requiring that any pattern of persecution against friends or family members be “closely tied to the petitioner”). Substantial evidence also supports the agency’s determination that Dody failed to establish a clear probability of future persecution, because even if the disfavored group analysis set forth in Sael v. Ashcroft, 386 F.3d 922, 927-29 (9th Cir.2004), applies to Christian Indonesians, Dody did not demonstrate the requisite…