Paruntu

MEMORANDUM **

Royke Robertas Paruntu, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s 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 and will uphold the agency’s decision unless the evidence compels a contrary conclusion. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478 , 481 n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). We deny the petition for review.

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

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s denial of withholding of removal because Paruntu’s experiences do not rise to the level of past persecution, see Prasad v. INS, 47 F.3d 336, 339-40 (9th Cir.1995), and he failed to establish a clear probability of future persecution by the government or forces that the government is unable or unwilling to control, see Castro-Perez v. Gonzales, 409 F.3d 1069, 1072 (9th Cir.2005); see also Lolong v. Gonzales, 484 F.3d…