In the last three or four years the wages in Indonesia have almost doubled and have certainly not tripled, but based upon high inflation and the currency crisis these increases are actually decreases in real terms based upon the US exchange rate and inflation levels. The researchers did not look at the workers pay stubs. This is a fatal mistake for any researcher. Instead they relied on the management, Depnaker and the memories of the workers. I checked 323 pay stubs during my field work and found that the deductions mentioned above seriously eroded the workers wages, Nike factories were the worst in this regard.
Language is a problem to the methodology.
The Dartmouth team evidently had no Indonesian language skills and relied on local interpreters. This is a problem in Indonesia as I found most interpreters to have very poor English skills and commonly made up answers to please the researcher. It was only because I developed my own Indonesian language skills that I found this bias in any research carried out in Indonesia. Workers in Indonesia commonly provide standard answers to the same question. They live in fear of their own state and factory management who can dismiss them without reason.