JAKARTA ~ An Australian who lost his wedding ring while swimming near an island off Jakarta last April was reunited with it nine months later thanks to a tenacious guide who had promised to search for it.

Keith Kimmons, 53, lost his ring while snorkeling with his son near a remote coral reef off the island of Sepa, a tourist destination in the Thousand Islands archipelago a few dozen kilometers from Jakarta.

A local named Jamhuri, who acted as their guide, promised to keep looking for it every time he returned to the reef and eventually found the ring after recent storms dislodged coral it had been under.