<![CDATA[Digital participation has prompted elementary education to address not only technological competence but also the moral foundations of responsible conduct. This study compares how selected official educational documents applicable to or informing elementary education in Turkey and Indonesia connect character formation with ethical digital participation and position educational responsibility among relevant actors. A comparative qualitative documentary analysis was conducted on 16 analytic units, seven from Turkey and nine from Indonesia, drawn from 18 official source files. Through iterative deductive–inductive coding, 129 evidence records were examined using within-case and cross-case analysis. The analysis indicates shared concerns with responsibility, self-regulation, respect, safety, and care, alongside different policy pathways. The selected documents from Turkey articulate privacy, digital identity, security, ethical communication, and citizenship more directly within elementary-level curricular expectations. The selected Indonesian documents provide a more religiously explicit and communal foundation through faith, akhlaq, adab, stewardship, mutual care, and cooperation, although their application to specific digital conduct is less consistently codified. Within the analysed corpus, educational responsibility also appears more visibly distributed across the family, school, community, and religious education system in Indonesia. Based on these documentary patterns, the study develops an integrated framework connecting ethical–spiritual foundations, pedagogical formation mechanisms, a shared educational ecology, ethical digital participation, and reflective digital agency. The framework offers a relational interpretation of digital character education at the elementary level beyond an exclusive emphasis on individual technical competencies. Because the analysis concerns policy documents, the findings represent normative orientations and do not establish classroom implementation or educational effectiveness]]>
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