Data::Dumper not indenting per perldocs

According to perldoc Data::Dumper:

$Data::Dumper::Indent or $OBJ->Indent([NEWVAL])
Controls the style of indentation. It can be set to 0,
1, 2 or 3.... Style 2 (the default) outputs a very
readable form which takes into account the length of
hash keys (so the hash value lines up).

However, when I run this program:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Indent = 2; #no diff if I comment this out

my %hash = qw{ this_is_a_long_hash_key long
short_key, short };

print Dumper \%hash;

__END__

I do not observe that the hash values line up:

$VAR1 = {
'this_is_a_long_hash_key' => 'long',
'short_key,' => 'short'
};

Why are the values not aligned? Thanks!

(Perl 5.8.4 on AIX 5.3 in a plain tty)

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