Tampubolon

MEMORANDUM **

Edward Tampubolon, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review the BIA’s asylum eligibility determination for substantial evidence, INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992), and deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s determination that Petitioner did not satisfy his burden of proving past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution. Tampubolon testified that his family never encountered any problems in the past on account of their Christian religion or Chinese ethnicity, and did not offer any *943 evidence to support his fear of future persecution, other than a generalized assessment of the current climate of violence towards Chinese Christians in Indonesia. As the IJ concluded, this is not the sort of particularized, extreme treatment that constitutes persecution. Prasad v. INS, 47 F.3d 336, 339 (9th…