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Hasudungan NAPITUPULU, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 07-74120.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted July 19, 2010.
    
    Filed July 29, 2010.
    Kaaren L. Barr, Esquire, Seattle, WA, for Petitioner.
    Shahrzad Baghai, Oil, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. LeFevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, WWS-Distriet Counsel, Esquire, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Office of the District Counsel, Seattle, WA, for Respondent.
    Before: B. FLETCHER, REINHARDT, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Hasudungan Napitupulu, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for 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 factual findings. Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1056 (9th Cir.2009). We grant the petition for review in part, deny in part, and remand.

The record does not compel the conclusion that the beating Napitupulu suffered from his co-workers or the incidence in which a co-worker put cockroaches in his food, even considered cumulatively, constitute past persecution. See Prasad v. INS, 47 F.3d 336, 339-40 (9th Cir.1995) (minor abuse of Indo-Fijian during 4-6 hour detention did not compel finding of past persecution).

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s denial of CAT relief because Napitu-pulu failed to show it is more likely than not that he would be tortured if removed to Indonesia. See Wakkary, 558 F.3d at 1067-68.

In analyzing Napitupulu’s withholding of removal claim, however, it is unclear whether the agency applied the disfavored group analysis set forth in Sael v. Ash croft, 386 F.3d 922 (9th Cir.2004). Intervening case law holds the disfavored group analysis applies to withholding of removal. See Wakkary, 558 F.3d at 1062-65; see also Tampubolon v. Holder, 610 F.3d 1056, 1062 (9th Cir.2010) (“[A]ny reasonable factfinder would be compelled to conclude on this record that Christian Indonesians are a disfavored group”). Accordingly, we remand to the agency to consider in the first instance whether Napitupulu is entitled to withholding of removal under the disfavored group analysis.

Each party shall bear their own costs on appeal.

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