This paper examines how people remember past disaster experiences, highlighting the tension between remembering and forgetting past disaster experiences within affected societies. While forgetting is essential for returning to normalcy, remembering is necessary for various reasons, often leading to the creation of cultural memory of disaster through monuments and commemorative events. These efforts typically localize disaster memory to specific memorial places or commemorative events. They confirm existing research on disaster memory, portraying these memories as distinct events or specific places separate from everyday life (Eyre 2007; Le Blanc 2012; Samuels 2012). However, my fieldwork in Indonesia following the 2004 earthquake and tsunami and the 2010 Mt. Merapi eruption shows that daily routines and familiar landscapes also evoke disaster memories. This paper differentiates between two interrelated modes of disaster remembering: separating disaster memory from daily life and integrating it into everyday life. From the locals’ perspective, disaster memory is dispersed throughout the landscape and embedded in daily activities. Drawing on the French sociological tradition, particularly Maurice Halbwachs’ collective memory (1980) and Marcel Mauss’ body techniques (1973), this paper argues that disaster remembering is not only triggered by distinct memorials or rituals but is also deeply embedded in ordinary landscapes, daily tasks, and bodily practices. Past disasters are emplaced in landscapes, intertwined with daily activities, enabling both memory activation and forgetting.