Sompotan
Sompotan v. Mukasey
Opinion
lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Petrus Daniel Sompotan, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order summarily affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1015 (9th Cir.2003), and we deny the petition for review.
Sompotan bases his asylum claim on a fear of future persecution, not on a showing of past persecution. Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s finding that Sompotan failed to demonstrate a well-founded fear of future persecution because, even if the disfavored group analysis applied to westernized Indonesian Christians, he did not demonstrate the requisite individual *573 ized risk of persecution. Cf Sael v. Ashcroft, 386 F.3d 922, 927-29 (9th Cir.2004). Additionally, the record does not compel the conclusion that the strife in Indonesia amounts to a pattern or practice of persecution against Christian Indonesians. See Lolong v. Gonzales, 484 F.3d 1173, 1180-81 (9th Cir.2007) (en banc).