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FILED
                            NOT FOR PUBLICATION                               OCT 17 2012

                                                                          MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                          U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JOHNSON WIDJAJA,                                 No. 08-70187

              Petitioner,                        Agency No. A096-361-968

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM*
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,

              Respondent.

                     On Petition for Review of an Order of the
                         Board of Immigration Appeals

                            Submitted October 12, 2012**
                                Pasadena, California

Before: KLEINFELD and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges, and QUIST, Senior
District Judge.***

       Johnson Widjaja, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of

the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an

        *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
        **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
        ***
             The Honorable Gordon J. Quist, Senior District Judge for the U.S.
District Court for Western Michigan, sitting by designation.
immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for asylum,

withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. Our

jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence

the agency’s factual findings, Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1056 (9th Cir.

2009), upholding the BIA’s determination “unless the evidence compels a

reasonable factfinder to reach a contrary result.” Husyev v. Mukasey, 528 F.3d

1172, 1182 (9th Cir. 2008). We review de novo claims of due process violations in

immigration proceedings. Sandoval-Luna v. Mukasey, 526 F.3d 1243, 1246 (9th

Cir. 2008). We dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

                                       I.

      We lack jurisdiction to review the IJ’s finding that Widjaja’s asylum

application is time-barred, because it involves disputed facts. 8 U.S.C.

§ 1158(a)(2)(B), (a)(3); see also Ramadan v. Gonzales, 479 F.3d 646, 648 (9th Cir.

2007). Widjaja’s assertion that the agency violated his due process rights by

failing to evaluate the evidence indicating that extraordinary circumstances

excused the untimely filing of his asylum application is unsupported by the record.

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See Lata v. I.N.S., 204 F.3d 1241, 1246 (9th Cir. 2000) (requiring error for

petitioner to prevail on a due process claim).

                                       II.

      Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s denial of withholding of removal.

The evidence that Widjaja offered does not compel a reasonable factfinder to reach

the conclusion that he was persecuted on account of his religion or ethnicity. The

first two incidents Widjaja reports are similar to those that the court in Wakkary

found to be “instances of discriminatory mistreatment” but not persecution.

Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d at 1059-60. In the third incident he describes, no one

mentioned his religion or ethnicity. He was not injured in the 1998 riots.

      Substantial evidence also supports the BIA’s determination that Widjaja did

not demonstrate an objective fear of future persecution. The evidence does not

compel a finding that he was more likely to be targeted than other Chinese people

in Indonesia. See Lolong v. Gonzales, 484 F.3d 1173, 1180 n.4 (9th Cir. 2007).

Nor does it compel a finding that Widjaja would more likely than not be persecuted

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if he returned to Indonesia. 8 C.F.R. § 208.16(b)(2); see also Hoxha v. Ashcroft,

319 F.3d 1179, 1185 (9th Cir. 2003).

                                       III.

      Widjaja presented no evidence indicating that he would be tortured if he

returned to Indonesia. 8 C.F.R. § 208.16(c)(2); Zheng v. Holder, 644 F.3d 829,

835 (9th Cir. 2011). He is therefore not eligible for protection under the

Convention Against Torture.

      The petition for review is DISMISSED in part and DENIED in part.

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