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Motan SILABAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 08-74116.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted April 17, 2012.
    
    Filed April 25, 2012.
    Armin Alexander Skalmowski, Alhambra, CA, for Petitioner.
    OIL, Edward Earl Wiggers, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, CAC-District Counsel, Esquire, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, Los Angeles, CA, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: LEAVY, PAEZ, and BEA, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Motan Silaban, 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 withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence, Gonzalez-Hernandez v. Ashcroft, 336 F.3d 995, 998 (9th Cir.2003), and we grant the petition for review, and we remand.

The agency found that, even if Silaban suffered persecution in the past, there has been a fundamental change in circumstances in Indonesia such that he no longer has a clear probability of persecution. Substantial evidence does not support the agency’s finding. See Mutuku v. Holder, 600 F.3d 1210, 1213 (9th Cir.2010) (agency “must provide an individualized analysis of how changed conditions will affect the specific petitioner’s situation” and country reports did not support changed circumstances finding). In addition, in assessing Silaban’s fear of future persecution, the agency did not have the benefit of our decisions in Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1064-65 (9th Cir.2009) and Tampubolon v. Holder, 610 F.3d 1056, 1062 (9th Cir.2010). Accordingly, we grant the petition and remand for the BIA to assess Silaban’s withholding of removal claim under the disfavored group analysis in the first instance. See Wakkary, 558 F.3d at 1067; see also INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-18, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam).

PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED; REMANDED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.