Hartono
Hartono v. Ashcroft
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Irene Hartono, an ethnic Chinese, native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision summarily affirming an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying her 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 the IJ’s findings, see Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244 (9th Cir.2000), and we deny the petition.
Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s finding that Hartono failed to demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution because she did not show a particularized risk of persecution in Indonesia. Hartono was subject to only isolated incidents of harassment as a child, and feared for her safety, but was not physically harmed during the May 1998 riots in Indonesia; she lived in Indonesia without incident from May 1998 until her arrival in the United States in February 2000; and her parents continue to live in and operate a business in Indonesia without incident. See Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962, 967 (9th Cir.1998) (stating that in order to establish well-founded fear of persecution, petitioner…