Fear not I'm going to resell it, just that the fact that it has a government logo on boot/shut down and also a permanent notification saying how generous they are has turned me off from using it.
Also spying issues and such.

Model is Galaxy Tab A8 SM-X205 or SM-X200

I think it's a MDM system bound by Knox Cloud, tried to Odin reflash it but sadly it didn't work.

Is it possible to just unlock the bootloader and flash it with a custom ROM? IIRC there is an unofficial Lineage OS for this tablet in xda that I plan to use.

I don't care about Knox and Samsung apps dependent on it so it's ok to trip the fuse for me.

The only thing I'm worried about is Knox cucking me out of the rooting progress and brick the phone.

Would be nice if someone can enlighten me, thanks.

Worth noting that USB debugging is locked out until the Knox enrollment progress is complete so ADB doesn't work.

Got notification to say how generous they are? I guess higher chance now that BN will win. Students everyday get planted with the message of generosity. Majority of the new voters will vote BN then.

I'm not sure how it's locked.. if they really have spyware, it probably send details that the tab has been activated and continuously being used? Now if you unlocked it and use different ROM, they might detect that the device is no longer active but IMEI still connects to the Internet.. ?

That tablet is customed made by samsung, u think gomen so stupid that they can let u jailbreak it, u can do it but on your own risk.
Just use it as it is, it's free right? So why bother unless u want to sell them or afraid that gomen can spy u seeing prawn

Yeah it's free but I just don't like having government shit and spyware plastered all over the device.
Just because you're a conforming person being ok with someone watching over you doesn't mean I have to be one.
I will probably take the risk but I still need to know if Knox will interfere with the rooting process.

Just realized i made a big typo on my first sentence lol. I meant that I am NOT going to resell the tablet. Had to create another alt to remedy this important mistake.

It's basically locked with a Knox enrollment program that act as the "profile" for the device. So technically if you could get rid of the Knox MDM client pre-enrollment (it's forced after the initial setup) you could avoid all the annoying government shit.
But the question is how? Since it persists even on stock rom reflash, it's kind of an independent client. I have yet to try to reflash it with rom from another country though. If it doesn't work either then unlocking the bootloader seems to be the final choice provided that Knox does not interfere.

Wish new users can edit posts though I don't know why is it not allowed.

I think better don't.. if anything goes wrong, can't find the official rom to flash back right?

Sammobile has official roms for free, just flashed mine to an african one lol, didn't work and went back to malaysian version.

The only way to get rid of this profile is to unlock the bootloader and root it I guess.

Would be nice if any brave heroes tried it though.

Return that device please. More deserving students are there than you